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)

AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

(2025/09/17)

House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software



Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead

(2025/09/17)

You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?



Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy

(2025/09/17)

Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database



Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy

(2025/09/17)

Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'



Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

(2025/09/17)

World War Fee American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform



AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

(2025/09/17)

And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy



Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center Node

(2025/09/17)

But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?



OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

(2025/09/17)

Even a wrong answer is right some of the time



Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

(2025/09/17)

Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'



Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

(2025/09/17)

But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity



BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch

(2025/09/17)

Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage



UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November

(2025/09/17)

Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable



Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

(2025/09/17)

Exclusive Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India



Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

(2025/09/17)

Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town



Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers

(2025/09/17)

Screw-up or conspiracy?



Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

(2025/09/17)

Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026



Microsoft Surface 7 laptop: Nice hardware, shame about the OS

(2025/09/17)

hands on Arm, AI, and Copilot, oh my!



UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand?

(2025/09/17)

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot



UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department

(2025/09/17)

Updated Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment



Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack

(2025/09/17)

Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware



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