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)

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

(2025/07/07)

Who, Me? Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error



Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

(2025/07/07)

Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground



VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

(2025/07/07)

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust



Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

(2025/07/07)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!



Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop

(2025/07/06)

Infosec In Brief Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more



Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage

(2025/07/06)

Updated SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors



UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

(2025/07/06)

Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?



Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

(2025/07/05)

¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds



iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10

(2025/07/05)

It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come



Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

(2025/07/05)

Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze



Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

(2025/07/04)

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits



Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

(2025/07/04)

Venerable command line tool to depart Windows



Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

(2025/07/04)

deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate



Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests

(2025/07/04)

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared



We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

(2025/07/04)

Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor



14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

(2025/07/04)

Exclusive Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down



Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

(2025/07/04)

'JFC, again?'



Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy

(2025/07/04)

Comment There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia



'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

(2025/07/04)

On Call Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not



EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

(2025/07/04)

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'



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I remember Ulysses well... Left one day for the post office to mail a letter,
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