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)

Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD

(2025/10/09)

Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January



SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

(2025/10/09)

Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans



Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint

(2025/10/09)

Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing



Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears

(2025/10/09)

It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine



Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly

(2025/10/09)

China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes



McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

(2025/10/09)

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity



Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

(2025/10/09)

That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit



CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises

(2025/10/09)

Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models



3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz

(2025/10/08)

It's hard out there for a crim



The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging

(2025/10/08)

When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right



Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths

(2025/10/08)

With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second



Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions

(2025/10/08)

Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters



AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover

(2025/10/08)

Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness



Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

(2025/10/08)

CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags



Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

(2025/10/08)

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks



IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month

(2025/10/08)

Giving the mainframe customers what they want



Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts

(2025/10/08)

Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge



IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL

(2025/10/08)

Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet



Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

(2025/10/08)

Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly



Germany slams brakes on EU's Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest

(2025/10/08)

Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages



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