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)

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

(2026/05/03)

Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet



Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

(2026/05/03)

PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?



Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

(2026/05/02)

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM



UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

(2026/05/02)

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it



Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

(2026/05/02)

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once



ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs

(2026/05/01)

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'



Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

(2026/05/01)

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it



Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

(2026/05/01)

SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely



Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

(2026/05/01)

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives



CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

(2026/05/01)

If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester



That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

(2026/05/01)

Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock



First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed

(2026/05/01)

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand



Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

(2026/05/01)

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow



OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

(2026/05/01)

Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked



SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

(2026/05/01)

But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev



Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

(2026/05/01)

313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming



UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

(2026/05/01)

Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters



Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

(2026/05/01)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night



Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

(2026/05/01)

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year



DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

(2026/05/01)

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'



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we will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love,
we will cry over things we used to laugh &
our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle
creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then &
in the end a summer with wild winds &
new friends will be.