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)

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

(2025/11/05)

Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?



Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

(2025/11/04)

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit



Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

(2025/11/04)

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them



Copilot can replace Search in latest Windows 11 test builds, but it's not a good idea

(2025/11/04)

hands on When you opt in, your taskbar becomes an extension of the Copilot app, but with some search added in



Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate

(2025/11/04)

They have no need to prove their bonafides



IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs

(2025/11/04)

Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group



UK judge delivers a 'damp squib' in Getty AI training case, no clear precedent set

(2025/11/04)

Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material



Russian spies pack custom malware into hidden VMs on Windows machines

(2025/11/04)

Curly COMrades strike again



Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's security falls apart amid layoffs

(2025/11/04)

Security program fails to meet federal standards as government cuts drain resources



Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

(2025/11/04)

Only a point up in a year, but that’s a 50% leap for Linux gamers



Python slithers faster by adding lazy imports that load code after startup

(2025/11/04)

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community



Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts

(2025/11/04)

Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do



Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

(2025/11/04)

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids



Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

(2025/11/04)

Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL



Invasion of the message body snatchers! Teams flaw allowed crims to impersonate the boss

(2025/11/04)

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history



$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday

(2025/11/04)

Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot



Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe

(2025/11/04)

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally



OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery

(2025/11/04)

Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel



Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

(2025/11/04)

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds



'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

(2025/11/04)

Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't



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United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas
season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military
forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of
every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time
low over the world.
-- Isaac Asimov