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)

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



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