AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking (2025/05/27) Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath (2025/05/27) No, not Amazon. China’s SHEIN is in the spotlight for fake discounts, grubby greenery, and evading inquiries
Get a custom paint job for earbuds at a nail salon, type on a baguette, then build a fountain for your PC (2025/05/27) Computex Taiwan's tech expo dishes up the usual oddities - some less bonkers than they seem
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection (2025/05/27) Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away (2025/05/26) Who, Me? Life in a corporate aquarium didn’t go swimmingly
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax' (2025/05/26) World War Fee But pauses tech-adjacent threat to slap all Euro-imports with 50 percent duties
TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed (2025/05/26) Infosec In Brief PLUS: Interpol kills more malware; GoDaddy settles in awful infosec case; Giant stolen creds DB exposed
China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme (2025/05/26) Asia In Brief PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model (2025/05/25) Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency
Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan (2025/05/25) Computex Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed (2025/05/25) Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door
Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor (2025/05/24) INTERVIEW Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome (2025/05/24) Obituary The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered
Forgotten Turing treasure trove rescued from attic goes under the hammer (2025/05/24) Computing pioneer's personal papers expected to fetch tens of thousands
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system (2025/05/23) SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Ransomware scum leaked Nova Scotia Power customers' info (2025/05/23) Bank accounts, personal details all hoovered up in the attack
Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing 'bad actors' and worse architecture (2025/05/23) Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack (2025/05/23) Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond (2025/05/23) A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30 (2025/05/23) Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling