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)

OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees

(2025/11/06)

updated Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments



Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months

(2025/11/06)

Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now



Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October

(2025/11/06)

ai-pocalypse Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.



Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London

(2025/11/06)

Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting



FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute

(2025/11/06)

Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules



Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

(2025/11/06)

Opinion Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era



Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters

(2025/11/06)

Sustainable vision? Who knows



'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant

(2025/11/06)

It's not a bug, it's a feeling



Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet

(2025/11/06)

Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds



You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

(2025/11/06)

Most of you still can't do better than 123456?



Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence

(2025/11/06)

Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen



SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach

(2025/11/06)

Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz



Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge

(2025/11/06)

Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow



Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack

(2025/11/06)

Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners



Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us

(2025/11/06)

Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers



UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn

(2025/11/06)

Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services



China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

(2025/11/06)

Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship



Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever

(2025/11/06)

Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners



Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

(2025/11/06)

Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link



Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks

(2025/11/06)

Some clever networking hacks open the door



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All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each
other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with
our lives."
-- Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell"