Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages (2025/05/07) Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu (2025/05/07) Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right?
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs (2025/05/07) It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports (2025/05/07) Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift? (2025/05/07) Comment Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support (2025/05/07) Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists (2025/05/07) Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs (2025/05/07) World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts (2025/05/07) Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev (2025/05/07) But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off
Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington (2025/05/07) We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle (2025/05/07) Don't f&#k with Zuck
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments (2025/05/07) Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction
Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you (2025/05/06) Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower (2025/05/06) What was the plan, showing her his big iron?
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL (2025/05/06) Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2 (2025/05/06) Updated Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source (2025/05/06) (If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests)
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear (2025/05/06) Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz
EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe (2025/05/06) Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research