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 inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B

(2025/09/09)

Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey



Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more

(2025/09/09)

First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more



SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal

(2025/09/09)

Dreams of one satellite constellation die so another can live



UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age

(2025/09/09)

Contract tender follows 'alarming' safeguarding failure at border with undocumented kids



Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone

(2025/09/09)

Ivalo XE handset targets governments and security critical sectors, though Qualcomm silicon keeps it tied to the US



Anthropic's Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake

(2025/09/09)

AI security reviews add new risks, say researchers



AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments

(2025/09/09)

From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures



Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find

(2025/09/09)

Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness



Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS

(2025/09/09)

Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core



UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

(2025/09/09)

Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad



Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills

(2025/09/09)

Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp



Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

(2025/09/09)

Updated Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious



Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade

(2025/09/09)

Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline



Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard

(2025/09/09)

Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months



WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting

(2025/09/09)

Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security



Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips

(2025/09/09)

Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?



Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

(2025/09/09)

'Stop this garbage already!'



The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs

(2025/09/08)

Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable



Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account

(2025/09/08)

Meanwhile the victim count grows



Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised

(2025/09/08)

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack



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City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to
Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound."
-- David Letterman