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)

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source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



Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

(2025/05/06)

Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US



Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win

(2025/05/06)

Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’



Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'

(2025/05/06)

Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer



30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

(2025/05/06)

From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other



Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

(2025/05/06)

Exclusive Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project



Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars

(2025/05/06)

Opinion 'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes



Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

(2025/05/06)

One distro has to be the most extra – and here it is



Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us

(2025/05/06)

RSAC Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?



Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans

(2025/05/06)

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money



Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?

(2025/05/06)

And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere



China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon

(2025/05/06)

State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance



CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

(2025/05/06)

Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win



IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

(2025/05/05)

Tech gigs slide, or so this analysis of US jobs data claims



Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

(2025/05/05)

Updated No, really? That's a shocking surprise



OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge

(2025/05/05)

Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do



Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine

(2025/05/05)

Who, Me? Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads



Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

(2025/05/05)

Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures



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To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in
Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's
fellow men, and c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste.
It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country
in the world wherein a man constituted as I am -- a man of my peculiar
weaknesses, vanities, appetites, and aversions -- can be so happy as he can
be in the United States. Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is
a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States
and not be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken, "On Being An American"