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)

Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

(2025/10/02)

interview And don't even get him started on AI



Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

(2025/10/02)

Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order



Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

(2025/10/02)

Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking



Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

(2025/10/02)

Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish – just like any other AI



OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

(2025/10/02)

Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month



Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance

(2025/10/02)

Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?



SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research

(2025/10/02)

Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts



Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials

(2025/10/02)

Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling



Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

(2025/10/02)

Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach



Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

(2025/10/02)

Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates



EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

(2025/10/02)

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate



BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030

(2025/10/02)

Because 100% would just be silly



Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath

(2025/10/02)

Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress



Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

(2025/10/02)

570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective



Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike

(2025/10/02)

Exclusive Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair



Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

(2025/10/02)

Updated Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity



Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures

(2025/10/02)

Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining



Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy

(2025/10/02)

It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?



Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

(2025/10/02)

IAC 2025 Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars



New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses

(2025/10/02)

Discovers debt it didn’t fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo



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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

- Linus Torvalds