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)

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

(2025/11/21)

On Call Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t



Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters

(2025/11/21)

It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum



Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help

(2025/11/21)

Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust



Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor

(2025/11/21)

Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too



SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere

(2025/11/21)

Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome



SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

(2025/11/20)

SC25 Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference



Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create

(2025/11/20)

hands on Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image...



PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools

(2025/11/20)

Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run



Salesforce-linked data breach claims 200+ victims, has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it

(2025/11/20)

They keep coming back for more



LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow

(2025/11/20)

Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job



Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training

(2025/11/20)

LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear



Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

(2025/11/20)

If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining



Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support

(2025/11/20)

EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list



Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

(2025/11/20)

PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts



Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance

(2025/11/20)

Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch



AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market

(2025/11/20)

Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base



TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties

(2025/11/20)

Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US



Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say watchdogs

(2025/11/20)

Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework



Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds

(2025/11/20)

Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors



Palo Alto kit sees massive surge in malicious activity amid mystery traffic flood

(2025/11/20)

Updated GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing



More

Feb 5 13:27:01 trinity lp0 on fire
-- the Linux kernel, alerting me that there was some unknown
problem with my printer (ie, it was out of ink)