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 Copilot Chat turns blabbermouth with crafty prompt injection attack

(2025/10/09)

AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown



Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

(2025/10/09)

No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place



US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll

(2025/10/09)

WORLD WAR FEE Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades



Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated

(2025/10/09)

Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents



Humans flunk the Turing test for voices as bots get chattier

(2025/10/09)

Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing



Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

(2025/10/09)

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem



China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths

(2025/10/09)

New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China



Windows 11 gets a fresh Start in latest Canary build

(2025/10/09)

Meanwhile, Microsoft resurrects Edit and kills .NET 3.5 SP1 on demand



Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door

(2025/10/09)

This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault



Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine

(2025/10/09)

Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies



SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke

(2025/10/09)

Affects users regardless of when their backups were created



Intel's open source future in question as exec says he's done carrying the competition

(2025/10/09)

Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first



Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD

(2025/10/09)

Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January



SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

(2025/10/09)

Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans



Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint

(2025/10/09)

Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing



Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

(2025/10/09)

It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine



Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly

(2025/10/09)

China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes



McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

(2025/10/09)

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity



Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

(2025/10/09)

That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit



CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises

(2025/10/09)

Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models



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