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)

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

(2025/06/27)

Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK



The network is indeed trying to become the computer

(2025/06/27)

Analysis Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems



The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

(2025/06/27)

Opinion True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop



BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex

(2025/06/27)

Episode 12 New fruit detected – please update hype cycle



Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area

(2025/06/27)

Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is



Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

(2025/06/27)

On Call When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight



HPE customers on agentic AI: No, you go first

(2025/06/27)

HPE Discover 2025 But like cloud computing and digital transformation, this may be a buzzword they can't ignore forever



Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption

(2025/06/27)

Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds



Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins

(2025/06/27)

Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’



More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case

(2025/06/27)

Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers



Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

(2025/06/26)

At least the BSOD acronym will still work



FBI used bitcoin wallet records to peg notorious IntelBroker as UK national

(2025/06/26)

Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums



What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency

(2025/06/26)

Comment Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond



Microsoft nuke power deal for Three Mile Island appears to be ahead of schedule

(2025/06/26)

837 megawatt reactor now expected in 2027, energy CEO says



Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine components

(2025/06/26)

A 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren’t patches to dwell on



Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives

(2025/06/26)

22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs



The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that

(2025/06/26)

Analysis The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers



Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure

(2025/06/26)

You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns



NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations

(2025/06/26)

Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor



Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations

(2025/06/26)

Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard



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