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)

Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval

(2025/07/15)

Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU



Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

(2025/07/15)

Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack



Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

(2025/07/14)

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…



Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

(2025/07/14)

Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley



Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

(2025/07/14)

Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun



Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

(2025/07/14)

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns



A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

(2025/07/14)

Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there



GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

(2025/07/14)

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it



AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

(2025/07/14)

Delivers specs in the form of user stories



xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

(2025/07/14)

Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out



EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

(2025/07/14)

Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney



Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

(2025/07/14)

First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home



Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

(2025/07/14)

Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else



GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

(2025/07/14)

Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats



UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

(2025/07/14)

Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says



Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

(2025/07/14)

Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage



Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

(2025/07/14)

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns



Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

(2025/07/14)

Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing



Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

(2025/07/14)

Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more



Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

(2025/07/14)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more



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