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)

Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

(2025/09/30)

Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy



Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

(2025/09/30)

Yep, we're sure that will win folks over



Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

(2025/09/30)

Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period



Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall

(2025/09/30)

"sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."



Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes

(2025/09/30)

Company faces a setback on the test stand



IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year

(2025/09/30)

Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs



Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries

(2025/09/30)

Rise of the machines DashCam's autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts... of delivery drivers



California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork

(2025/09/30)

LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency



Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

(2025/09/30)

Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidents at train crossings



Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears

(2025/09/30)

50,000 firewall devices still exposed



Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC

(2025/09/30)

Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?



Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love

(2025/09/30)

(Right) Hands On Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only



Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

(2025/09/30)

Rust-coded editor beta arrives with general availability promised in October



ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

(2025/09/30)

And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering



NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat

(2025/09/30)

DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark



'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

(2025/09/30)

Updated Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts



Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

(2025/09/30)

Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year



£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

(2025/09/30)

Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas



UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy

(2025/09/30)

Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles



Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it

(2025/09/30)

Interview Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14



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Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives.
-- Sue Murphy