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)

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

(2025/11/06)

Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs



Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'

(2025/11/05)

Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent



Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer

(2025/11/05)

hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store



Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

(2025/11/05)

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands



Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B

(2025/11/05)

Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year



Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers

(2025/11/05)

The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030



When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade

(2025/11/05)

Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build



AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system

(2025/11/05)

CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers



Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP

(2025/11/05)

S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change



AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security

(2025/11/05)

Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way



Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes

(2025/11/05)

Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself



Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding

(2025/11/05)

Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work



Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions

(2025/11/05)

Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI



M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

(2025/11/05)

Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials



Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction

(2025/11/05)

Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands



Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees

(2025/11/05)

A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed



UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

(2025/11/05)

After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace



Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

(2025/11/05)

Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections



Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now

(2025/11/05)

Can’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects



Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage

(2025/11/05)

Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll



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