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)

North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking

(2025/12/24)

A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology



NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be

(2025/12/24)

Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears



Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date

(2025/12/24)

Part 1 Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026



Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

(2025/12/24)

Plans move to Rust, with help from AI



AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor

(2025/12/24)

VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options



US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs

(2025/12/24)

World War Fee President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027



ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis'

(2025/12/23)

Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows.



21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid

(2025/12/23)

Automaker's third security snafu in three years



Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth

(2025/12/23)

Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse



Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

(2025/12/23)

Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas



Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

(2025/12/23)

You’ll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it



Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

(2025/12/23)

Opinion Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it



Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time

(2025/12/23)

Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster



UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

(2025/12/23)

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works



Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

(2025/12/23)

The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI



Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows

(2025/12/23)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found



Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year

(2025/12/23)

Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs



France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'

(2025/12/23)

Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix



Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried

(2025/12/23)

25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous



Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

(2025/12/22)

And it's especially dangerous because the code works



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A halted retreat
Is nerve-wracking and dangerous.
To retain people as men -- and maidservants
Brings good fortune.