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)

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

(2025/08/07)

Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React



Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

(2025/08/07)

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act



Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

(2025/08/07)

Feature Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark



Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

(2025/08/07)

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU



How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

(2025/08/07)

Hands On All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience



Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

(2025/08/07)

World War Fee Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs



I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

(2025/08/07)

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers



Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows

(2025/08/07)

It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program



Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge

(2025/08/07)

Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India



Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

(2025/08/06)

UPDATED Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign



Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law

(2025/08/06)

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market



Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections

(2025/08/06)

But strife and criticism continue



OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

(2025/08/06)

gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden



Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump

(2025/08/06)

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding



Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances

(2025/08/06)

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions



Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim

(2025/08/06)

Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment



Meta putting wood in bit barns in bid to get greener

(2025/08/06)

Timber!



Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

(2025/08/06)

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'



Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI

(2025/08/06)

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1



Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs

(2025/08/06)

A crock of what now?



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