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)

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

(2025/11/12)

Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line



VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

(2025/11/12)

Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware



Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

(2025/11/12)

End of support? Not quite



Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

(2025/11/12)

Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks



Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme

(2025/11/12)

Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy



MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows

(2025/11/12)

Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code



Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

(2025/11/12)

Updated Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar



Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

(2025/11/12)

Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation



UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut

(2025/11/12)

Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors



Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’

(2025/11/12)

Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption



Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

(2025/11/12)

'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO



Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying

(2025/11/12)

Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run



China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer

(2025/11/12)

A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’



Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

(2025/11/12)

‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks



North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

(2025/11/11)

KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones



Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'

(2025/11/11)

Hungry Hippo won't move to the launchpad until next year



EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

(2025/11/11)

Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations



US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

(2025/11/11)

Disclosure? We've heard of it



OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list

(2025/11/11)

Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps



UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

(2025/11/11)

Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon



More

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.
-- H. L. Mencken