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)

Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power

(2025/06/23)

It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years



Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people

(2025/06/23)

Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time



Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase

(2025/06/23)

$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago



Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie

(2025/06/23)

Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner



Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt

(2025/06/23)

Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring



Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell

(2025/06/23)

Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch



Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts

(2025/06/23)

MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning



The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world

(2025/06/23)

Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off



Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

(2025/06/23)

Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else



Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

(2025/06/23)

Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers



AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China

(2025/06/23)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!



Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China

(2025/06/23)

Infosec in brief PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more



The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

(2025/06/22)

Turn out the lights, the internet is over



Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

(2025/06/21)

Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji



Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

(2025/06/20)

Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar



New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

(2025/06/20)

Welcome to bill shock, AI style



US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it

(2025/06/20)

'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO



EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

(2025/06/20)

DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms



Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web

(2025/06/20)

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...



Qilin ransomware top dogs treat their minions to on-call lawyers for fierier negotiations

(2025/06/20)

It's a marketing move to lure more affiliates, says infosec veteran



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"What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through
these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot
water."
(By Matt Welsh)