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)

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

(2025/11/19)

Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit



Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M

(2025/11/19)

Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA



Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos

(2025/11/19)

Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V



US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed

(2025/11/19)

A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979



San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court

(2025/11/19)

Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals



Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh

(2025/11/19)

Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge



Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market

(2025/11/19)

Updated Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components



Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

(2025/11/19)

Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference



Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

(2025/11/19)

Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms



Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI

(2025/11/19)

Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front



Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals

(2025/11/19)

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says



CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

(2025/11/19)

Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate



SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script

(2025/11/19)

B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain



Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

(2025/11/19)

Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity



Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most

(2025/11/19)

Opinion Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity



China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’

(2025/11/19)

MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information



Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC

(2025/11/19)

And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only



Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

(2025/11/19)

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix



Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook

(2025/11/19)

Vertical integration meets subscriptions



Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

(2025/11/19)

BORK is borked



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