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)

Russian spies pack custom malware into hidden VMs on Windows machines

(2025/11/04)

Curly COMrades strike again



Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's security falls apart amid layoffs

(2025/11/04)

Security program fails to meet federal standards as government cuts drain resources



Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

(2025/11/04)

Only a point up in a year, but that’s a 50% leap for Linux gamers



Python slithers faster by adding lazy imports that load code after startup

(2025/11/04)

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community



Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts

(2025/11/04)

Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do



Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

(2025/11/04)

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids



Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

(2025/11/04)

Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL



Invasion of the message body snatchers! Teams flaw allowed crims to impersonate the boss

(2025/11/04)

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history



$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday

(2025/11/04)

Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot



Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe

(2025/11/04)

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally



OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery

(2025/11/04)

Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel



Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

(2025/11/04)

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds



'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

(2025/11/04)

Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't



AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

(2025/11/04)

Feature How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff



Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting

(2025/11/04)

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach



Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

(2025/11/04)

Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'



China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

(2025/11/04)

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping



LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore’s Grab

(2025/11/04)

Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right



AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years

(2025/11/04)

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal



Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge

(2025/11/04)

'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server



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The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to
devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.
-- Lew Mammel, Jr.