ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

(2025/05/29)

Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots



Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security

(2025/05/29)

Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens



Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules

(2025/05/29)

Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish



OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

(2025/05/29)

Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims



European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

(2025/05/29)

Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up



Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users

(2025/05/29)

Updated Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues



China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home

(2025/05/29)

Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet



HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits

(2025/05/29)

Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous



India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns

(2025/05/29)

‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber



Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role

(2025/05/29)

World War Fee Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged



Trump trade policy to cost Nvidia $10.5B in lost H20 GPU revenues

(2025/05/29)

But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent



Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'

(2025/05/29)

Knickers outlet knackered



Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok

(2025/05/29)

Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too



Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps

(2025/05/29)

Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades



Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

(2025/05/28)

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick



Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'

(2025/05/28)

Interview 'Everyone's holding their breath'



MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2

(2025/05/28)

Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim



Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

(2025/05/28)

So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'



Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

(2025/05/28)

Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself



Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs

(2025/05/28)

Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy



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