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)

FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion

(2025/04/01)

New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems



Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

(2025/04/01)

Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer



Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

(2025/04/01)

Interview 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us



Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

(2025/04/01)

Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending



Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

(2025/04/01)

The UK government must be thrilled



Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech

(2025/04/01)

Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers



UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

(2025/04/01)

Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time



Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'

(2025/04/01)

Comment What counts as failure in New Space?



RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

(2025/04/01)

Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind



Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount

(2025/04/01)

Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout



GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

(2025/04/01)

Not exactly Snowden levels of skill



Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end

(2025/04/01)

Optimistic much?



Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it

(2025/04/01)

Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt



Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

(2025/04/01)

How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too



Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'

(2025/04/01)

Vision AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...



Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket

(2025/04/01)

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?



CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw

(2025/04/01)

Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug



Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes

(2025/04/01)

Updated Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence



Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed

(2025/03/31)

1990s incident response in 2025



Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

(2025/03/31)

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake



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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because
it isn't here.
-- Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley)