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)

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal

(2026/04/16)

UPDATED Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing



Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

(2026/04/16)

If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard



North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist

(2026/04/16)

Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'



If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID

(2026/04/16)

Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit



DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses

(2026/04/16)

Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims



Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband

(2026/04/16)

Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes



Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars

(2026/04/16)

Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam



Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews

(2026/04/16)

Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up



Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned

(2026/04/16)

When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...



Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

(2026/04/16)

Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs



Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod

(2026/04/16)

Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer



Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed

(2026/04/16)

Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data



Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine

(2026/04/16)

Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems



Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy

(2026/04/16)

Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash



Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall

(2026/04/16)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start



Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive

(2026/04/16)

Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget



Server-room lock was nothing but a crock

(2026/04/16)

PWNED Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers



QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

(2026/04/16)

Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant



Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan

(2026/04/16)

Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October



Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment

(2026/04/16)

Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices



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