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)

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight

(2025/12/30)

Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs



Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls

(2025/12/30)

2026 is the year where AI must meet ROI in the enterprise, and the key to delivering it is data governance.



We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server

(2025/12/30)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Now replace the autopilot with Copilot



Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud

(2025/12/30)

One cert, in plaintext, on thousands of devices, led to what looks like years of crime



Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

(2025/12/30)

UPDATED ‘General agents’ to infuse Meta’s products real soon now



Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer

(2025/12/29)

The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday



Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims

(2025/12/29)

There's more where that came from, CEO says



Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online

(2025/12/29)

Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast



Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

(2025/12/29)

There’s a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover



Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try

(2025/12/29)

Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future



How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems

(2025/12/29)

20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly



Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

(2025/12/29)

Feature Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground



When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real

(2025/12/29)

On Call Y2K More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers



Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83

(2025/12/29)

Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era



Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence

(2025/12/29)

Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared



China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company

(2025/12/29)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more



Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025

(2025/12/28)

The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase



Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death

(2025/12/28)

BORK!BORK!BORK! Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD



SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update

(2025/12/27)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Best not touch that screen, eh?



BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct

(2025/12/27)

Episode 25 After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101



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Pelorat sighed.
"I will never understand people."
"There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look
at yourself and you will understand everyone else. How would Seldon have
worked out his Plan -- and I don't care how subtle his mathematics was --
if he didn't understand people; and how could he have done that if people
weren't easy to understand? You show me someone who can't understand
people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself
-- no offense intended."
-- Asimov, "Foundation's Edge"