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)

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

(2025/07/09)

No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button



Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions

(2025/07/09)

Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead



Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

(2025/07/09)

Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked



ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded

(2025/07/09)

Comment Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff



Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack

(2025/07/09)

Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings



Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

(2025/07/09)

Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers



C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds

(2025/07/09)

Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI



Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel

(2025/07/09)

Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire



Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS

(2025/07/09)

A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market



Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables

(2025/07/09)

Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?



Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

(2025/07/09)

Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch



Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits

(2025/07/09)

Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness



IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage

(2025/07/09)

More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs



Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

(2025/07/08)

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet



Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

(2025/07/08)

You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!



Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

(2025/07/08)

updated These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says



Trump's budget bill opens wide swath of spectrum for sale

(2025/07/08)

updated Including frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networking



Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry

(2025/07/08)

Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal



One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts

(2025/07/08)

'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed'



Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed

(2025/07/08)

First volume of inquiry report focuses on the UKscandal's human impact



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DOS Air:
All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it
until it gets in the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground again.
Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, et
cetera.