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)

HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits

(2025/05/29)

Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous



India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns

(2025/05/29)

‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber



Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role

(2025/05/29)

World War Fee Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged



Trump trade policy to cost Nvidia $10.5B in lost H20 GPU revenues

(2025/05/29)

But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent



Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'

(2025/05/29)

Knickers outlet knackered



Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok

(2025/05/29)

Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too



Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps

(2025/05/29)

Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades



Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

(2025/05/28)

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick



Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'

(2025/05/28)

Interview 'Everyone's holding their breath'



MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2

(2025/05/28)

Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim



Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

(2025/05/28)

So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'



Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +

(2025/05/28)

Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself



Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs

(2025/05/28)

Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy



DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS

(2025/05/28)

Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more



Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans

(2025/05/28)

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though



Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

(2025/05/28)

IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch



Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

(2025/05/28)

The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath



AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon

(2025/05/28)

Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans



Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

(2025/05/28)

hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy



Eviden unveils satellite monitoring tool, as Starlink asks UK for E band access

(2025/05/28)

Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them



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