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)

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

(2025/11/04)

Feature How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff



Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting

(2025/11/04)

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach



Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

(2025/11/04)

Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'



China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

(2025/11/04)

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping



LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore’s Grab

(2025/11/04)

Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right



AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years

(2025/11/04)

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal



Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge

(2025/11/04)

'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server



Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

(2025/11/04)

If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way



MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS

(2025/11/03)

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'



Ransomware negotiator, pay thyself!

(2025/11/03)

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms



Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes

(2025/11/03)

Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn't even really designed to answer general-purpose questions



AWS, Nvidia, CrowdStrike seek security startups to enter the arena

(2025/11/03)

Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation



OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal

(2025/11/03)

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation



Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage

(2025/11/03)

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure



Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

(2025/11/03)

The spending will continue until ROI improves



Cybercrooks team up with organized crime to steal pricey cargo

(2025/11/03)

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age



Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs

(2025/11/03)

Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation



Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

(2025/11/03)

Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026



ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews

(2025/11/03)

Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch



Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over

(2025/11/03)

IEEE survey of senior techies in six countries finds recrutiment for data analytics, and machine learning on the up



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We need to teach Linus about "taste" in drivers. His core code taste is
impeccable, but I'm not fond of his driver taste ;)

- Alan Cox on linux-kernel