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)

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners

(2025/12/17)

updated Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.



NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth

(2025/12/17)

Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit



Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack

(2025/12/17)

Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings



AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

(2025/12/17)

CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers



NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential

(2025/12/17)

Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war



California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

(2025/12/17)

Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law'



Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems

(2025/12/17)

Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet



X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

(2025/12/17)

Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many



Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

(2025/12/17)

Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech



UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge

(2025/12/17)

Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions



England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

(2025/12/17)

Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits



UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

(2025/12/17)

Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations



Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products

(2025/12/17)

Apparently you’re about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure



India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

(2025/12/17)

No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride



China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks

(2025/12/17)

Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out



Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

(2025/12/16)

The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people



Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims

(2025/12/16)

An employee of the adult site could be responsible.



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



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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't
be cured.
-- Anton Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard"