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)

Anti-fraud body leaks dozens of email addresses in invite mishap

(2025/10/21)

Calendar cock-up exposed recipients' details



AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

(2025/10/21)

12 more hours of pain followed initial outage



Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment

(2025/10/21)

Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough



AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do

(2025/10/21)

Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting



Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco's network

(2025/10/21)

It's Typhoon season…year round



Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split

(2025/10/20)

The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company



Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts

(2025/10/20)

Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery



Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

(2025/10/20)

Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light



Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

(2025/10/20)

column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works



Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection

(2025/10/20)

Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users



Nvidia still needs Taiwan even as TSMC ramps Blackwell production in Arizona

(2025/10/20)

AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs



China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

(2025/10/20)

'US is … the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace'



AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

(2025/10/20)

Analysis Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location



In '90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out

(2025/10/20)

Hiring and firing at the Windows giant more The Bachelor than Survivor



UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system

(2025/10/20)

Cabinet Office signals it might let supplier ship work abroad after 'unforeseeable' event



Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

(2025/10/20)

Updated October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs



Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters

(2025/10/20)

Now try a jet engine in a bedstead before strapping into a Starship



Benioff backs off: Salesforce chief says sorry for Trump troop talk

(2025/10/20)

Tech billionaire apologizes after endorsing plan to deploy National Guard in San Francisco



Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

(2025/10/20)

That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch



The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation

(2025/10/20)

Opinion Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution!



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