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)

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



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