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)

Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company

(2025/06/30)

Who, Me? Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap



Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO

(2025/06/30)

interview Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin



DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code

(2025/06/30)

Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s



China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers

(2025/06/30)

Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems



Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP

(2025/06/30)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more!



It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators

(2025/06/30)

Infosec in Brief PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more



AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

(2025/06/29)

Feature More fiction than science



Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'

(2025/06/28)

interview Watch out for supply chain hacks especially



How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC

(2025/06/28)

'This is not a copyright message'



Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech

(2025/06/28)

$61B business offers $10K–$50K grants to assess AI’s job-market impact



Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info

(2025/06/28)

Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system



Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material

(2025/06/28)

Over 18? Prove it



How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market

(2025/06/27)

feature When AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead



Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

(2025/06/27)

'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA



Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job

(2025/06/27)

ai-pocalypse AI will make 'significant changes' to economy, labor market



Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal

(2025/06/27)

The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build



Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’

(2025/06/27)

Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way



Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI

(2025/06/27)

Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though



Aloha, you’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’

(2025/06/27)

update 'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg



US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

(2025/06/27)

updated No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'



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I treasure this strange combination found in very few persons: a fierce
desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of
the quest.
-- Madeleine Gobeil