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)

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

(2025/07/14)

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns



A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

(2025/07/14)

Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there



GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

(2025/07/14)

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it



AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

(2025/07/14)

Delivers specs in the form of user stories



xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

(2025/07/14)

Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out



EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

(2025/07/14)

Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney



Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

(2025/07/14)

First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home



Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

(2025/07/14)

Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else



GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

(2025/07/14)

Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats



UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

(2025/07/14)

Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says



Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

(2025/07/14)

Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage



Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

(2025/07/14)

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns



Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

(2025/07/14)

Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing



Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

(2025/07/14)

Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more



Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

(2025/07/14)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more



You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

(2025/07/13)

Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another



The price of software freedom is eternal politics

(2025/07/12)

Comment Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too



From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job

(2025/07/12)

Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?



Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

(2025/07/12)

No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs



AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

(2025/07/12)

Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag



More

"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was."
-- Walt West