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)

DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS

(2025/05/28)

Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more



Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans

(2025/05/28)

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though



Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

(2025/05/28)

IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch



Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

(2025/05/28)

The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath



AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon

(2025/05/28)

Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans



Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

(2025/05/28)

hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy



Eviden unveils satellite monitoring tool, as Starlink asks UK for E band access

(2025/05/28)

Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them



Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone

(2025/05/28)

And it's all your fault



German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

(2025/05/28)

More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam



DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware

(2025/05/28)

Updated SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack



SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again

(2025/05/28)

Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either



ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it

(2025/05/28)

Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements



Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

(2025/05/28)

Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead



From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'

(2025/05/28)

He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom



Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle

(2025/05/27)

400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew



Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

(2025/05/27)

No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient



AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

(2025/05/27)

'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'



New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack

(2025/05/27)

Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting



Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

(2025/05/27)

The rebellion grows and it seems resistance is not futile



Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

(2025/05/27)

He'll need to be way more aggressive than a 25% tariff, say analysts, and even then it would take years



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