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)

France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'

(2025/12/23)

Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix



Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried

(2025/12/23)

25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous



Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

(2025/12/22)

And it's especially dangerous because the code works



Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs

(2025/12/22)

SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M



SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year

(2025/12/22)

Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list



Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'

(2025/12/22)

Interview Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year



Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

(2025/12/22)

Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing



Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

(2025/12/22)

Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post



Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim

(2025/12/22)

Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK



What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

(2025/12/22)

Opinion Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card



EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031

(2025/12/22)

Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics



Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges

(2025/12/22)

Hands On Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle



Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency

(2025/12/22)

On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs



AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter

(2025/12/22)

Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery



Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

(2025/12/22)

Feature Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty



The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

(2025/12/22)

Opinion Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech



AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?

(2025/12/22)

Total operational capacity just keeps rising



New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

(2025/12/22)

Who, Me? Mousey wouldn’t work, wah-wah-wah



There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM

(2025/12/22)

SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion



Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan

(2025/12/22)

APAC in Brief PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!



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