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)

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

(2025/11/18)

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’



Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

(2025/11/18)

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief



Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

(2025/11/18)

Interview Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing



'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

(2025/11/17)

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder



Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

(2025/11/17)

Ready, aim, mire



AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

(2025/11/17)

ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2



Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

(2025/11/17)

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him



Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

(2025/11/17)

SC25 EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year



Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

(2025/11/17)

Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right



Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

(2025/11/17)

SC25 Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak



Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle

(2025/11/17)

Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em



Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

(2025/11/17)

Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs



Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

(2025/11/17)

Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability



Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus

(2025/11/17)

Named after titan who stole fire from the gods and was punished for eternity... Amazon warehouse staff know the feeling



Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations

(2025/11/17)

Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills



SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

(2025/11/17)

Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work



Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack

(2025/11/17)

Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid



Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

(2025/11/17)

Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage



UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

(2025/11/17)

Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence



Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

(2025/11/17)

Expect Sloppy Updates?



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