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)

Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel

(2025/08/18)

Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea



Pot calls kettle black as China dubs US 'surveillance empire' over chip tracking

(2025/08/18)

Comment Spy vs spy in the chips



GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

(2025/08/18)

MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scale



List or get off the pot: Auditors demand gov’t improve IT reporting or give it up

(2025/08/18)

A plan to standardize IT record keeping is incomplete after 8 years, and the GAO wants someone to act



AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'

(2025/08/18)

Updated Amazon giant blames pricing bug after updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested



Microsoft's Nuance coughs up $8.5M to rid itself of MOVEit breach suit

(2025/08/18)

Supply chain breach has been a major target of legal action



Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy

(2025/08/18)

P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds



Workday warns of CRM breach after social engineers make off with business contact details

(2025/08/18)

HR SaaS giant insists core systems untouched



SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test

(2025/08/18)

If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't



UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy

(2025/08/18)

Virtual agents to guide citizens through red tape – but not remove any of it



From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data

(2025/08/18)

Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers



Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations

(2025/08/18)

Sni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause



Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you

(2025/08/18)

Opinion When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you



A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

(2025/08/18)

The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bit



Generative AI isn't just a matter of life and death. It's far more important than that

(2025/08/18)

Opinion Visions of immortality are uniformly dull. But this is gonna get ugly



Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

(2025/08/18)

Who, Me? The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training



Someone's poking the bear with infostealers targeting Russian crypto developers

(2025/08/18)

If you wanted to hurt Putin’s ransomware racketeers, these info-stealing npm packages are one way to do it



In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices

(2025/08/18)

Vidchat hosts probably know Otter.ai records everything and feeds it into AI. Their guests may not



India's PM laments missing out on global chipmaking dominance – in 1964!

(2025/08/18)

Prime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries



Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine

(2025/08/18)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more!



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