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)

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

(2025/10/30)

Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors



DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

(2025/10/30)

Updated We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time



Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm

(2025/10/30)

Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive



AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer

(2025/10/30)

So they’re increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way



Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers

(2025/10/30)

Snoops remained undetected for nearly 10 months



Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it

(2025/10/30)

More convenient layout saves you a click



Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

(2025/10/30)

updated Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised



Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

(2025/10/29)

Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services



'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions

(2025/10/29)

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators



Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

(2025/10/29)

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studies



This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

(2025/10/29)

Exclusive Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected



AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running

(2025/10/29)

Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings



Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

(2025/10/29)

Think a custom Yoke is cool? Check this out...



EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

(2025/10/29)

The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online



Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

(2025/10/29)

Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years



India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub

(2025/10/29)

TypeScript was ranked top programming language



Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels

(2025/10/29)

Oscar-winning author and performer would prefer Copilot did not offer her writing assistance



Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories

(2025/10/29)

GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters



AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

(2025/10/29)

Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts



The CAPITAL LETTERS trick that helped merge Windows 95 into NT

(2025/10/29)

Keeping track of checks, 1990s style



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Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
Ltd. of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan. The
company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 per cent
defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).
The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
plastic. The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5 per
cent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them separately."
-- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail