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)

How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

(2025/02/25)

Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process



If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks

(2025/02/25)

APRICOT 2025 The small pool of suppliers understand their market power



Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

(2025/02/25)

Comment Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on



LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing

(2025/02/25)

Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet



Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

(2025/02/25)

Everyone knew texted OTPs were a dud back in 2016



Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

(2025/02/24)

Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc



US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes

(2025/02/24)

'Appropriate action will be taken,' we're told – as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff



Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

(2025/02/24)

OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware



Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

(2025/02/24)

But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster



uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

(2025/02/24)

Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere



Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns

(2025/02/24)

Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply'



The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

(2025/02/24)

No matter how deep you are in Apple's 'ecosystem,’ there are ways to stay encrypted in Blighty



SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland

(2025/02/24)

Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn



IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

(2025/02/24)

Exclusive At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign



How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?

(2025/02/24)

State Of Open When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up



Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life

(2025/02/24)

What is dead may never die



Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing

(2025/02/24)

Opinion Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future



Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

(2025/02/24)

Who, Me? 'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'



Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that

(2025/02/24)

APRICOT 2025 Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’



Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

(2025/02/24)

Infosec in brief Plus: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more



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