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)

China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure

(2025/04/14)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands



Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

(2025/04/14)

World War Fee Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans



Hacktivism resurges – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masks

(2025/04/13)

Feature Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights



Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters

(2025/04/13)

Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3



AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

(2025/04/12)

Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots



Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI

(2025/04/12)

Analysis No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks



LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

(2025/04/12)

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'



Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again

(2025/04/12)

A thing of beauty for map fans and those with kids



Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

(2025/04/12)

Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time



Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

(2025/04/12)

$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled



China ups tariffs on US goods to 125%, calls Trump's war a 'joke'

(2025/04/11)

World War Fee Middle Kingdom retaliates against White House's 'instrument and weapon to bully and coerce'



PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished

(2025/04/11)

Consumer campaign group says 'we need lifetime transparency for tech



IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency

(2025/04/11)

Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action



The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead

(2025/04/11)

Plus a fresh version ... nine years after its last



Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes

(2025/04/11)

Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports



Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

(2025/04/11)

Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?



Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins

(2025/04/11)

Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier



BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

(2025/04/11)

Episode 7 Who needs actual server hardware when you can fire up a Linux laptop with the Matrix screensaver?



Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints

(2025/04/11)

Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue



Ransomware crims hammering UK more than ever as British techies complain the board just doesn't get it

(2025/04/11)

Issues at the very top continue to worsen



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There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing the
rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries civilization
will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements. We must provide a
Great Age or see the collapse of the upward striving of the human race.
-- Alfred North Whitehead