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)

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



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