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)

Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips

(2025/12/16)

No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people



Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

(2025/12/16)

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions



Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators

(2025/12/16)

Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary



Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own

(2025/12/16)

Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements



SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag

(2025/12/16)

All I want for Christmas … is all of your data



Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm

(2025/12/16)

And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models



Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on

(2025/12/16)

Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling



US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

(2025/12/16)

Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy



From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill

(2025/12/16)

Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs



Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood

(2025/12/16)

AI-nflation Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery



Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot

(2025/12/16)

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo picked to replace interim boss Laura Chambers



Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer

(2025/12/16)

But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am?



From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions

(2025/12/16)

Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentials



MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

(2025/12/16)

New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'



UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months

(2025/12/16)

Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors



Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

(2025/12/16)

Theologians give scriptural OK to online faith communities



Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access

(2025/12/16)

Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls



No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

(2025/12/16)

Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked



Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters

(2025/12/16)

EV sales didn’t accelerate as hoped, so it will repurpose idling factories



Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us

(2025/12/16)

Palantir's former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform



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The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards,
specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of
rise per foot of run. A compromise, I imagine...