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 spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault

(2025/11/25)

Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system



UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite

(2025/11/25)

Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers



Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak

(2025/11/25)

ICO accused of backing off oversight as fallout from Afghan blunder widens



Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges

(2025/11/25)

Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset



Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell

(2025/11/25)

Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake



AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam

(2025/11/25)

Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic



Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs

(2025/11/25)

Company has hitherto thought different about sackings



Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials

(2025/11/24)

Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code



Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

(2025/11/24)

Multiple internal studies allegedly buried by the company



Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead

(2025/11/24)

Opinion The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.



Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating

(2025/11/24)

By removing the stigma of reward hacking, AI models are less likely to generalize toward evil



Ex-CISA officials, CISOs dispel 'hacklore,' spread cybersecurity truths

(2025/11/24)

Don't believe everything you read



Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream

(2025/11/24)

Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK



Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down

(2025/11/24)

Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that



X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

(2025/11/24)

Accuracy errors or inadvertent unmasking of rage-bait trolls? Probably somewhere in between



LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it

(2025/11/24)

Somewhere between a cover version and a loving homage of the interface that helped shape the modern desktop



How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche

(2025/11/24)

DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow



Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum

(2025/11/24)

Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit



Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

(2025/11/24)

Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs



Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks

(2025/11/24)

SitusAMC rules out ransomware, but accounting records for major institutions potentially affected



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