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)

Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

(2025/05/21)

Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform



M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack

(2025/05/21)

Downtime stings retailer, with technical recovery costs coming at a later date



UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security

(2025/05/21)

After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options



Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America

(2025/05/21)

interview Crew ain't done hopping sectors, Unit 42 threat hunter warns



AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics

(2025/05/21)

Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code



Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

(2025/05/21)

Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit



AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips

(2025/05/21)

Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700



'Ongoing' Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds

(2025/05/21)

Nothing like insecure code in security suites



Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love

(2025/05/21)

Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else



Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

(2025/05/20)

Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too



Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn

(2025/05/20)

Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently



Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them

(2025/05/20)

Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster



Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

(2025/05/20)

Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu



Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms

(2025/05/20)

Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite



Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris

(2025/05/20)

Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work



Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

(2025/05/20)

I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further



Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

(2025/05/20)

Build Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?



Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets

(2025/05/20)

Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains



Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros

(2025/05/20)

Computex Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’



Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

(2025/05/20)

Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver



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Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run
like a staff function.
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