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)

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



Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

(2025/04/11)

On Call Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing



VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle

(2025/04/11)

A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October



The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

(2025/04/11)

Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too



Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

(2025/04/11)

Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam



Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

(2025/04/11)

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan



Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

(2025/04/11)

Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure



Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

(2025/04/10)

LLM query caching also lands soon



OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

(2025/04/10)

Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'



US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware derailed ops

(2025/04/10)

Props for the transparency though



Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

(2025/04/10)

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance



Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

(2025/04/10)

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'



AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

(2025/04/10)

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice



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