Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint (2025/10/15) Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects
ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand (2025/10/15) Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders
Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club (2025/10/15) Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release
AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse (2025/10/15) Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit
£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers (2025/10/15) Updated Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure
Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand (2025/10/15) IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records (2025/10/15) ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack (2025/10/15) Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone (2025/10/15) canalys emea forum 2025 ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told (2025/10/15) Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage (2025/10/15) Column And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements (2025/10/15) In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'
Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack (2025/10/15) Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks
CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down (2025/10/15) America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year
Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects (2025/10/14) Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance
18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year (2025/10/14) New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs
Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults (2025/10/14) Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked (2025/10/14) To the slop trough, kiddos!
Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed (2025/10/14) Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required
DGX Spark, Nvidia’s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds (2025/10/14) hands on This relatively affordable AI workstation isn’t about going fast; it’s about doing everything well enough