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)

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(2026/01/30)

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(2026/01/30)

opinion The call is coming from inside the house



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(2026/01/29)

To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet



Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

(2026/01/29)

A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds



Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom

(2026/01/29)

'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment'



Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts

(2026/01/29)

ai-pocalypse The 129 year old chemical company uses Palantir-rival C3's AI as its software of choice.



AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2

(2026/01/29)

Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate



To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide

(2026/01/29)

The Chocolate Factory strikes again, targeting the infrastructure attackers use to stay anonymous



AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare

(2026/01/29)

eScan lawyers up after Morphisec claimed 'critical supply-chain compromise'



Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules

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Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing



Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

(2026/01/29)

Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS



IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge

(2026/01/29)

Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs



ShinyHunters swipes right on 10M records in alleged dating app data grab

(2026/01/29)

Extortion crew says it's found love in someone else's info as Match Group plays down the impact



Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

(2026/01/29)

Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole



Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy

(2026/01/29)

Elon thinks taxis and androids will succeed where car sales are stalling



Patch or perish: Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions

(2026/01/29)

Apply fixes within a few hours or face the music, say the pros



Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

(2026/01/29)

Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers



Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026

(2026/01/29)

Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge



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What Did Santa Claus Bring You In 1999? (#2)

WEBMASTER OF LINUXSUPERMEGAPORTAL.COM: One of my in-laws gifted me a
CD-ROM containing the text of every "...For Dummies" book ever published.
It's a shame IDG never published "Hiring A Hitman To Knock Off Your
Inlaws... For Dummies", because that's something I'm itching to do. At any
rate, I'm using the CD as a beer coaster.

JESSE BERST: I got a coupon redeemable for the full copy of Windows 2000
when it comes out in February. Win2K is the most innovative,
enterprise-ready, stable, feature-enriched, easy-to-use operating system
on the market. I don't see how Linux can survive against Microsoft's far
superior offering. I ask you: could you get fired for NOT choosing Windows
2000? You bet.

LINUX CONVERT: I kept hinting for a SGI box, but instead my wife got me an
old Packard Bell. Unfortunately, she bought it at CompUSSR, which doesn't
take returns, so I'm stuck with it. I haven't been able to get Linux to
boot on it, so this machine will probably become a $750 paperweight.