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)

Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI

(2025/03/13)

So much for 'carbon negative by 2030'



CISA: We didn't fire our red team, we just unhired a bunch of them

(2025/03/13)

Agency tries to save face as it also pulls essential funding for election security initiatives



DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code

(2025/03/13)

It might need polishing, but a useful find for any budding cybercrooks out there



ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads

(2025/03/13)

PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in



Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior

(2025/03/13)

If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealed



GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out

(2025/03/13)

Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point'



City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

(2025/03/13)

Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors



Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop

(2025/03/13)

Try it out now on Pixel phones for some penguin on penguin fun



Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

(2025/03/13)

Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting



Medusa ransomware affiliate tried triple extortion scam – up from the usual double demand

(2025/03/13)

Feds warn gang still rampant and now cracked 300+ victims around the world



AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

(2025/03/13)

Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings



As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away

(2025/03/13)

Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things right



Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

(2025/03/13)

Yeah, yeah ... if we were all exclusively on IPv6, this wouldn't be a thing. But here we are



Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz

(2025/03/13)

Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more



Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

(2025/03/12)

Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too



As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal

(2025/03/12)

Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric car



Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan

(2025/03/12)

Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envy



iRobot may be iDead in iYear

(2025/03/12)

We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...



Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game

(2025/03/12)

Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?



Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update

(2025/03/12)

Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems



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