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)

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

(2026/04/03)

Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much



When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

(2026/04/03)

Bork!Bork!Bork! This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food



Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

(2026/04/03)

On Call Y2k Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine



AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

(2026/04/03)

Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior



Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

(2026/04/02)

Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages



Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

(2026/04/02)

About that partnership...



US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

(2026/04/02)

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems



They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

(2026/04/02)

Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks



Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

(2026/04/02)

Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong



IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

(2026/04/02)

Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute



Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

(2026/04/02)

Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'



Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

(2026/04/02)

In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft



Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle

(2026/04/02)

The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services



Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

(2026/04/02)

Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer



Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

(2026/04/02)

Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen



Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

(2026/04/02)

Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings



AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

(2026/04/02)

We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'



Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo

(2026/04/02)

And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned



SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support

(2026/04/02)

And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis



The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

(2026/04/02)

Pwned Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable



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