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)

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

(2025/08/13)

You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI



I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

(2025/08/13)

Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data



NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit

(2025/08/13)

Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays



Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

(2025/08/13)

Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack



Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room

(2025/08/13)

First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor



Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia

(2025/08/13)

Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power



Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

(2025/08/13)

Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'



Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE

(2025/08/13)

None under active exploit…yet



Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

(2025/08/12)

Could the most popular browser change hands?



Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data

(2025/08/12)

And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring



You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by . . . deleting old emails

(2025/08/12)

Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI



Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads

(2025/08/12)

Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea



US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems

(2025/08/12)

Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm



GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic

(2025/08/12)

Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing



Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business

(2025/08/12)

Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement



Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident'

(2025/08/12)

Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day



Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants

(2025/08/12)

Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up



No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

(2025/08/12)

'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD



BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

(2025/08/12)

US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large



Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features

(2025/08/12)

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month



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