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)

US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems

(2025/08/12)

Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm



GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic

(2025/08/12)

Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing



Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business

(2025/08/12)

Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement



Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident'

(2025/08/12)

Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day



Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants

(2025/08/12)

Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up



No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

(2025/08/12)

'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD



BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

(2025/08/12)

US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large



Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features

(2025/08/12)

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month



Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics

(2025/08/12)

Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today



Debian 13 'Trixie' arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in

(2025/08/12)

Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shell



Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

(2025/08/12)

Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'



Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating

(2025/08/12)

Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel



Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

(2025/08/12)

Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra



Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

(2025/08/12)

Exclusive updated UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources



VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk

(2025/08/12)

Microsoft’s AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI prompts



Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs

(2025/08/12)

Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction



Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services

(2025/08/12)

Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M



The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption

(2025/08/12)

Analysis Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players



UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'

(2025/08/12)

Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation



Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show

(2025/08/12)

Sysadmins, your job is safe



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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
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