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)

VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers

(2025/05/22)

Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom



Europe is Russian to sanction Putin's pals over 'hybrid' threats

(2025/05/22)

Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz



China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station

(2025/05/22)

Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space



Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

(2025/05/22)

Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed



Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations

(2025/05/22)

google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be



Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark after Trump DOJ snooping scandal

(2025/05/22)

Updated AT&T, Verizon, T-Mo failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says



US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool

(2025/05/21)

The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed



Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

(2025/05/21)

LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper



Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

(2025/05/21)

Google I/O Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact



Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot

(2025/05/21)

And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions



Russia's Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs' email servers

(2025/05/21)

Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh



FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service

(2025/05/21)

Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M



Coinbase confirms insiders handed over data of 70K users

(2025/05/21)

Bribed support staff identified, fired



Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

(2025/05/21)

Comment When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions'



Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple

(2025/05/21)

Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others



Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line

(2025/05/21)

CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures



Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach

(2025/05/21)

From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue



Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

(2025/05/21)

In practice, it'll cost many times that and almost certainly won't work



NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed

(2025/05/21)

Will the US President take credit for that one as well?



Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture

(2025/05/21)

No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up



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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde