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)

AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports

(2025/08/06)

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN



Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training

(2025/08/06)

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead



Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

(2025/08/06)

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface



Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

(2025/08/06)

hands on They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it



OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2

(2025/08/05)

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license



Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

(2025/08/05)

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options



Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

(2025/08/05)

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it



Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools

(2025/08/05)

UPDATED Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys



Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

(2025/08/05)

black hat Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?



Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices

(2025/08/05)

Updated CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations



Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection

(2025/08/05)

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too



JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding

(2025/08/05)

Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary



NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms

(2025/08/05)

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one



Chained bugs in Nvidia's Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise

(2025/08/05)

Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution



Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void

(2025/08/05)

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment



Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

(2025/08/05)

Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports



Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink

(2025/08/05)

OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some



How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

(2025/08/05)

You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000



Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON

(2025/08/05)

These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few



TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft

(2025/08/05)

UPDATED Tokyo Electron reveals a former employee is involved, and that no info reached third parties



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And here I wait so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going thru all of these things twice
-- Dylan, "Memphis Blues Again"