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