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)

Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet

(2025/11/06)

Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds



You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

(2025/11/06)

Most of you still can't do better than 123456?



Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence

(2025/11/06)

Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen



SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach

(2025/11/06)

Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz



Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge

(2025/11/06)

Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow



Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack

(2025/11/06)

Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners



Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us

(2025/11/06)

Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers



UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn

(2025/11/06)

Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services



China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

(2025/11/06)

Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship



Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever

(2025/11/06)

Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners



Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

(2025/11/06)

Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link



Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks

(2025/11/06)

Some clever networking hacks open the door



Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

(2025/11/06)

Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs



Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'

(2025/11/05)

Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent



Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer

(2025/11/05)

hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store



Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

(2025/11/05)

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands



Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B

(2025/11/05)

Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year



Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers

(2025/11/05)

The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030



When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade

(2025/11/05)

Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build



AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system

(2025/11/05)

CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers



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