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)

UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down

(2025/08/11)

Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer



Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

(2025/08/11)

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb



Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

(2025/08/11)

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins



The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business

(2025/08/11)

Feature AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey



Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

(2025/08/11)

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers



AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future

(2025/08/11)

Opinion Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters



Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

(2025/08/11)

Who, Me? Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes



China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

(2025/08/11)

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030



Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often

(2025/08/11)

Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots



Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

(2025/08/11)

Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU



India’s services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors

(2025/08/11)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more!



Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

(2025/08/11)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more!



DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

(2025/08/10)

def con Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale



How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%

(2025/08/10)

Analysis Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved



NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas

(2025/08/10)

Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one



The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data

(2025/08/10)

DEF CON It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC



The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

(2025/08/09)

Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone



The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024

(2025/08/09)

Yes, 2024 – the prizes in the 40th anniversary edition prizes were just awarded



UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience

(2025/08/09)

Does 40 quid from the supplier sound all right for waiting over 6 weeks for a fix?



Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more

(2025/08/08)

To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place



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I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than
first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then
I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts')
-- Olaf Kirch