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)

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



Australia to let Big Tech choose its own adventure to enact kids social media ban

(2025/09/17)

Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off



Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains

(2025/09/16)

Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed



Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say

(2025/09/16)

Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing - a bit like people, really



Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops

(2025/09/16)

Talk about an inside job



Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'

(2025/09/16)

ai-pocalypse 250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site



Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

(2025/09/16)

Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch



Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists

(2025/09/16)

That's optimistic based on progress so far



Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8

(2025/09/16)

May have been used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks against 'specific targeted individuals'



Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

(2025/09/16)

Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years



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Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
-- Robert Parker, quoted in "Murder Ink", ed. D. Wynn