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)

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



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