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)

SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels

(2025/05/22)

Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs



Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

(2025/05/22)

Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over



Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones

(2025/05/22)

4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'



Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

(2025/05/22)

A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past



Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM

(2025/05/22)

Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos



AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

(2025/05/22)

Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study



'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

(2025/05/22)

Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts



AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro

(2025/05/22)

And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget



Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

(2025/05/22)

Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected



VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers

(2025/05/22)

Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom



Europe is Russian to sanction Putin's pals over 'hybrid' threats

(2025/05/22)

Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz



China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station

(2025/05/22)

Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space



Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

(2025/05/22)

Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed



Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations

(2025/05/22)

google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be



Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark after Trump DOJ snooping scandal

(2025/05/22)

Updated AT&T, Verizon, T-Mo failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says



US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool

(2025/05/21)

The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed



Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

(2025/05/21)

LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper



Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous

(2025/05/21)

Google I/O Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact



Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot

(2025/05/21)

And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions



Russia's Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs' email servers

(2025/05/21)

Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh



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Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure is in the
learning of each other?
-- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is
Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.3.