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)

Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

(2025/09/18)

Huawei or another, we're gonna getcha off Nvidia



Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites

(2025/09/18)

As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo



US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty

(2025/09/17)

Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more



Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

(2025/09/17)

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?



AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

(2025/09/17)

House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software



Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead

(2025/09/17)

You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?



Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy

(2025/09/17)

Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database



Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy

(2025/09/17)

Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'



Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

(2025/09/17)

World War Fee American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform



AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

(2025/09/17)

And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy



Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center Node

(2025/09/17)

But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?



OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

(2025/09/17)

Even a wrong answer is right some of the time



Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

(2025/09/17)

Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'



Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

(2025/09/17)

But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity



BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch

(2025/09/17)

Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage



UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November

(2025/09/17)

Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable



Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

(2025/09/17)

Exclusive Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India



Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

(2025/09/17)

Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town



Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers

(2025/09/17)

Screw-up or conspiracy?



Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

(2025/09/17)

Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026



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