Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents (2025/11/13) The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place
OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions (2025/11/13) Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it
You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel (2025/11/12) But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit (2025/11/12) 600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft (2025/11/12) Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues
Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private (2025/11/12) We take your privacy, seriously
First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun (2025/11/12) Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets
Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape (2025/11/12) Vendors (still) keep mum
Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas (2025/11/12) Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong (2025/11/12) Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch (2025/11/12) End of support? Not quite
Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere (2025/11/12) Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme (2025/11/12) Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows (2025/11/12) Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI (2025/11/12) Updated Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase (2025/11/12) Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation
UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut (2025/11/12) Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors
Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’ (2025/11/12) Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan (2025/11/12) 'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying (2025/11/12) Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run