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)

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

(2025/07/06)

Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?



Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

(2025/07/05)

¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds



iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10

(2025/07/05)

It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come



Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

(2025/07/05)

Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze



Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

(2025/07/04)

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits



Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

(2025/07/04)

Venerable command line tool to depart Windows



Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

(2025/07/04)

deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate



Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests

(2025/07/04)

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared



We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

(2025/07/04)

Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor



14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

(2025/07/04)

Exclusive Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down



Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

(2025/07/04)

'JFC, again?'



Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy

(2025/07/04)

Comment There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia



'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

(2025/07/04)

On Call Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not



EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

(2025/07/04)

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'



Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

(2025/07/04)

Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it



Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

(2025/07/04)

If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you



Microsoft leaves Pakistan but promises customers won't notice the change

(2025/07/04)

Exclusive Job cuts aren’t big, symbolism of quitting the world’s fifth-most-populous nation might be



Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

(2025/07/04)

A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool



US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

(2025/07/04)

And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies



AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

(2025/07/03)

Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding



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