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)

Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster

(2025/10/24)

Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand



OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature

(2025/10/24)

Updated ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks



Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case

(2025/10/24)

iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court



AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

(2025/10/24)

Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs



Microsoft drops surprise Windows Server patch before weekend downtime

(2025/10/24)

You didn't have plans, did you?



Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

(2025/10/24)

Updated Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July



Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

(2025/10/24)

Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash



Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper

(2025/10/24)

11 years of filing feedback and all we got was a bloody... not even a T-shirt?



BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries

(2025/10/24)

Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate



How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

(2025/10/24)

Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US?



Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone

(2025/10/24)

Runways? Where we're going, we don't need runways



BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time

(2025/10/24)

Episode 20 The quickest route to carbon neutrality is creative accounting



Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise

(2025/10/24)

OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency



New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

(2025/10/24)

On Call Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it



Iran's MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree

(2025/10/24)

Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East



Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more

(2025/10/24)

Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time



Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now

(2025/10/24)

Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process



Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

(2025/10/24)

The 0-days have left the building



Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface

(2025/10/24)

Hands On The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone’s favorite paper clip.



Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'

(2025/10/24)

But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner



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