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)

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

(2025/09/26)

On Call Manager's quality control priorities were upside down



Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers

(2025/09/26)

They would say that, wouldn’t they?



Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud

(2025/09/26)

Apple prices meet Dell style



800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive

(2025/09/26)

Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar



Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC

(2025/09/26)

Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy



Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI

(2025/09/26)

Video You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies



Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military

(2025/09/25)

Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians'



X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC

(2025/09/25)

Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5



North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers

(2025/09/25)

Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full



Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime

(2025/09/25)

Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net



AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

(2025/09/25)

Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors



Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data

(2025/09/25)

Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack



Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters

(2025/09/25)

Productivity gains promised, but humans still expected to audit the bots



DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog

(2025/09/25)

New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw



EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold

(2025/09/25)

While EC suspects vendor's practices stifle competition, it argues it is in line with industry standards



Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

(2025/09/25)

Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify



Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later

(2025/09/25)

Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in



Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble

(2025/09/25)

Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet



Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack

(2025/09/25)

The latest in a run of serious networking bugs gives attackers root if they have SNMP access



Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment

(2025/09/25)

Performance of new version mostly good, but future uncertain



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They went rushing down that freeway,
Messed around and got lost.
They didn't care... they were just dying to get off,
And it was life in the fast lane.
-- Eagles, "Life in the Fast Lane"