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)

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification

(2026/03/06)

Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI



Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October

(2026/03/06)

Released from the curse of the update bork fairy



UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding

(2026/03/06)

It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says



Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000

(2026/03/06)

Attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless users



UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

(2026/03/06)

Exclusive Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal



Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

(2026/03/06)

Opinion OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived



Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

(2026/03/06)

On Call Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to do



Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites

(2026/03/06)

‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone



Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

(2026/03/06)

Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war



China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

(2026/03/06)

Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead



Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

(2026/03/06)

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk



Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year

(2026/03/06)

Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech



Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears

(2026/03/05)

It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.



TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor

(2026/03/05)

Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay?



Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks

(2026/03/05)

MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant



Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

(2026/03/05)

Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway?



You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it

(2026/03/05)

You made a time machine vapemobile ... out of a Delorean G-Wiz?



Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation

(2026/03/05)

UPDATED LibreOffice steward pleased says Commish saw the light, no longer requires Excel feedback form



Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

(2026/03/05)

Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready



Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

(2026/03/05)

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online



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