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)

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law

(2025/07/21)

Opinion Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain



Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo

(2025/07/21)

Who, Me? 'This, many considered, was bad'



Alaska Airlines grounded itself due to mysterious IT problem

(2025/07/21)

UPDATED Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong



Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory

(2025/07/21)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more



Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

(2025/07/21)

AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things



Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

(2025/07/21)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more



US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

(2025/07/20)

Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues



UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspies

(2025/07/20)

Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes



China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world

(2025/07/19)

Comment OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead



Ex-IDF cyber chief on Iran, Scattered Spider, and why social engineering worries him more than 0-days

(2025/07/19)

Interview Keep It Simple, Stupid



Republican calls out Trump admin's decision to resume GPU sales to China

(2025/07/19)

Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary



Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines

(2025/07/19)

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges



Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027

(2025/07/18)

That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else



Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

(2025/07/18)

Comment And we’re the ones building it



YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

(2025/07/18)

Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device



Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

(2025/07/18)

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters



As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

(2025/07/18)

Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably



Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

(2025/07/18)

2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time



Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

(2025/07/18)

Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?



The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

(2025/07/18)

Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake



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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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