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
Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere (2025/08/07) Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI (2025/08/07) Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React
Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots (2025/08/07) Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act
Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear (2025/08/07) Feature Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark
Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft (2025/08/07) Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU
How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer (2025/08/07) Hands On All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience
Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors (2025/08/07) World War Fee Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs
I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way? (2025/08/07) Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers
Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows (2025/08/07) It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program
Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge (2025/08/07) Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India
Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through (2025/08/06) UPDATED Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign
Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law (2025/08/06) Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market
Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections (2025/08/06) But strife and criticism continue
OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office (2025/08/06) gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden