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)

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



Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

(2025/05/20)

Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it



Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

(2025/05/20)

Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters



Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents

(2025/05/20)

Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs



Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor

(2025/05/20)

Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork



Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

(2025/05/20)

Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech



CISA has a new No. 2 ... but still no official top dog

(2025/05/20)

Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats - who wouldn't want this job?



Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

(2025/05/20)

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo



Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet

(2025/05/19)

Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior



SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

(2025/05/19)

Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene



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