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)

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

(2025/12/10)

Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany



Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills

(2025/12/10)

feature 1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island



Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

(2025/12/10)

Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types



Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

(2025/12/10)

Opinion They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them



Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux

(2025/12/10)

Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here



Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space

(2025/12/10)

Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground



Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport

(2025/12/10)

Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll



Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted

(2025/12/10)

US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech



Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

(2025/12/10)

Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole



Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

(2025/12/10)

Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough



How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking

(2025/12/09)

Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok



Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

(2025/12/09)

A win for the contractors



Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

(2025/12/09)

An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on



Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

(2025/12/09)

Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck



Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13

(2025/12/09)

Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build



Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

(2025/12/09)

Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say



Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight

(2025/12/09)

Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance



Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US

(2025/12/09)

As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US



As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

(2025/12/09)

Interview Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows?



NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage

(2025/12/09)

Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty



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O'Propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment
jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic
effect: "Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o'fun" or
"Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap
guy, doesn't he?"
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"