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)

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

(2025/08/22)

FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in



Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs

(2025/08/22)

Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more



Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back

(2025/08/22)

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean



Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

(2025/08/22)

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’



DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon

(2025/08/22)

Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon



Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware

(2025/08/22)

Pro tip: When taking revenge, don't use your real name



Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

(2025/08/22)

Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?



Microsoft reportedly cuts China's early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code

(2025/08/22)

Better late than never after SharePoint assault?



'Impersonation as a service' the next big thing in cybercrime

(2025/08/22)

Underground forums now recruiting English-speaking social engineers



Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned

(2025/08/21)

Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection



Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers

(2025/08/21)

Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas



Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal

(2025/08/21)

If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!



LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0

(2025/08/21)

Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows



Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap

(2025/08/21)

World War Fee US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions



Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations

(2025/08/21)

But the free AI Mode itself can now take your history into account



Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour

(2025/08/21)

Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings



Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America

(2025/08/21)

What testing is happening before changes hit production?



Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud

(2025/08/21)

Everything a criminal needs for targeted attacks exposed, but telco insists 'no critical data compromised'



US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets

(2025/08/21)

Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers



Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS

(2025/08/21)

Another 'extremely sophisticated' exploit chewing at Cupertino's walled garden



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