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)

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command

(2026/03/04)

London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted



Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation

(2026/03/04)

Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats



Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

(2026/03/04)

The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI



NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout

(2026/03/04)

New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount



Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

(2026/03/04)

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection



Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

(2026/03/04)

Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor



UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

(2026/03/04)

James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal



Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

(2026/03/04)

Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again



Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

(2026/03/04)

Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement



Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

(2026/03/04)

Updated Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft



Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform

(2026/03/04)

Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft



One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

(2026/03/04)

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM



European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

(2026/03/04)

Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes



Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

(2026/03/04)

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe



OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

(2026/03/04)

The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department



Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets

(2026/03/04)

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference



Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

(2026/03/04)

Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed



Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business

(2026/03/04)

Updated Go outside and smell some flowers



MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver

(2026/03/03)

Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice



Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

(2026/03/03)

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details



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<Tazman> damn my office is cold.
<Tazman> need a hot secretary to warm it up.
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