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)

Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

(2025/08/08)

Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment



Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s

(2025/08/08)

A new connector may be on the cards, too



$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board

(2025/08/08)

Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year



Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?

(2025/08/08)

Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is



OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

(2025/08/08)

That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?



German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz

(2025/08/07)

Black Hat Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans



AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028

(2025/08/07)

What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?



Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise'

(2025/08/07)

No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet



NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations

(2025/08/07)

Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?



Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'

(2025/08/07)

Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus



Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'

(2025/08/07)

Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change'



Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause

(2025/08/07)

Black Hat The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack'



CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack

(2025/08/07)

Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing 'ToolShell' blitz



Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

(2025/08/07)

Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest



Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine

(2025/08/07)

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims



KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data

(2025/08/07)

Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told



Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

(2025/08/07)

Updated Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back



LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire

(2025/08/07)

Forensics experts say the state of the K8’s battery suggests it led to the living room blaze



OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status

(2025/08/07)

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE



The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward

(2025/08/07)

'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards



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