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)

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

(2025/11/04)

If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way



MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS

(2025/11/03)

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'



Ransomware negotiator, pay thyself!

(2025/11/03)

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms



Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes

(2025/11/03)

Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn't even really designed to answer general-purpose questions



AWS, Nvidia, CrowdStrike seek security startups to enter the arena

(2025/11/03)

Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation



OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal

(2025/11/03)

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation



Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage

(2025/11/03)

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure



Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

(2025/11/03)

The spending will continue until ROI improves



Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo

(2025/11/03)

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age



Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs

(2025/11/03)

Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation



Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

(2025/11/03)

Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026



ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews

(2025/11/03)

Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch



Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over

(2025/11/03)

IEEE survey of senior techies in six countries finds recrutiment for data analytics, and machine learning on the up



Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests

(2025/11/03)

But question marks remain over the tech’s biases



Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

(2025/11/03)

Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching?



Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0

(2025/11/03)

Ubuntu Summit Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?



The race to shore up Europe’s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage

(2025/11/03)

Feature Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement



Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds

(2025/11/03)

Boffins say outsourcing your homework leaves you sounding less knowledgeable, short on facts



Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

(2025/11/03)

Ubuntu Summit Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg



From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

(2025/11/03)

Opinion Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed



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