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)

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack

(2025/12/17)

Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings



AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

(2025/12/17)

CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers



NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential

(2025/12/17)

Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war



California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

(2025/12/17)

Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law'



Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems

(2025/12/17)

Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet



X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

(2025/12/17)

Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many



Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

(2025/12/17)

Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech



UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge

(2025/12/17)

Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions



England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

(2025/12/17)

Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits



UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

(2025/12/17)

Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations



Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products

(2025/12/17)

Apparently you’re about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure



India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

(2025/12/17)

No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride



China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks

(2025/12/17)

Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out



Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

(2025/12/16)

The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people



Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims

(2025/12/16)

An employee of the adult site could be responsible.



Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips

(2025/12/16)

No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people



Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

(2025/12/16)

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions



Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators

(2025/12/16)

Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary



Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own

(2025/12/16)

Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements



SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag

(2025/12/16)

All I want for Christmas … is all of your data



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They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the
system from within. I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First
we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens. I'm guided by this birthmark on
my skin. I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons. First we take Manhattan,
then we take Berlin.

I'd really like to live beside you, baby. I love your body and your spirit
and your clothes. But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you I told you I told you I was one of those.
-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"