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)

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

(2025/08/29)

Feature Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again



Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

(2025/08/29)

On Call Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops



China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

(2025/08/29)

700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles



China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6

(2025/08/29)

Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside



FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

(2025/08/29)

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries



Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

(2025/08/29)

They use AI more but also check it more



Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

(2025/08/29)

Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well



Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

(2025/08/28)

My brain hurts a lot



DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix

(2025/08/28)

But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission



vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

(2025/08/28)

Nor is its Arm port



DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

(2025/08/28)

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?



Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

(2025/08/28)

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots



FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9

(2025/08/28)

$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline



How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

(2025/08/28)

'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader



Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite

(2025/08/28)

Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service



Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly

(2025/08/28)

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats



AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas

(2025/08/28)

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200



'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud

(2025/08/28)

INTERVIEW Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point



Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches

(2025/08/28)

Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden



SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot

(2025/08/28)

Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network



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... in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general
intelligence of an average human being ... The machine will begin
to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be
at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be
incalculable ...
-- Marvin Minsky, LIFE Magazine, November 20, 1970