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)

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

(2025/04/09)

World War Fee Middle Kingdom gets 145%. So this is what it's like living in reality TV



Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025

(2025/04/09)

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE



Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty

(2025/04/09)

World War Fee Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed?



Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide

(2025/04/09)

And coming up next, Trump's World War Fee



UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

(2025/04/09)

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers



Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz

(2025/04/09)

Cloud Next How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec



FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever

(2025/04/09)

The 1990s called – they're impressed



Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

(2025/04/09)

SenseShield the latest company to fall foul of 24H2



UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

(2025/04/09)

Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year



Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

(2025/04/09)

Strangely no eighth tip to use something else



Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you

(2025/04/09)

Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027



Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

(2025/04/09)

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast



DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

(2025/04/09)

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky



Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home

(2025/04/09)

Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec



AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

(2025/04/09)

Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future



Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

(2025/04/09)

Patch Tuesday A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low



TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+

(2025/04/09)

What did we learn today, hm?



Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor

(2025/04/08)

Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely



Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

(2025/04/08)

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so



Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar

(2025/04/08)

'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear



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