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)

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

(2025/12/23)

Opinion Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it



Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time

(2025/12/23)

Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster



UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

(2025/12/23)

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works



Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

(2025/12/23)

The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI



Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows

(2025/12/23)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found



Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year

(2025/12/23)

Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs



France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'

(2025/12/23)

Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix



Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried

(2025/12/23)

25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous



Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

(2025/12/22)

And it's especially dangerous because the code works



Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs

(2025/12/22)

SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M



SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year

(2025/12/22)

Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list



Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'

(2025/12/22)

Interview Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year



Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

(2025/12/22)

Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing



Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

(2025/12/22)

Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post



Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim

(2025/12/22)

Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK



What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

(2025/12/22)

Opinion Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card



EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031

(2025/12/22)

Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics



Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges

(2025/12/22)

Hands On Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle



Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency

(2025/12/22)

On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs



AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter

(2025/12/22)

Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery



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...cyberpunk wants to see the mind as mechanistic & duplicable,
challenging basic assumptions about the nature of individuality & self.
That seems all the better reason to assume that cyberpunk art & music is
essentially mindless garbagio. Willy certainly addressed this idea in
"Count Zero," with Katatonenkunst, the automatic box-maker and the girl's
observation that the real art was the building of the machine itself,
rather than its output.
-- Eliot Handelman