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)

Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them

(2025/05/20)

Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster



Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

(2025/05/20)

Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu



Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms

(2025/05/20)

Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite



Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris

(2025/05/20)

Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work



Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

(2025/05/20)

I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further



Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

(2025/05/20)

Build Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?



Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets

(2025/05/20)

Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains



Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros

(2025/05/20)

Computex Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’



Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

(2025/05/20)

Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver



Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

(2025/05/20)

Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it



Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

(2025/05/20)

Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters



Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents

(2025/05/20)

Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs



Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor

(2025/05/20)

Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork



Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn

(2025/05/20)

Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech



CISA has a new No. 2 ... but still no official top dog

(2025/05/20)

Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats - who wouldn't want this job?



Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

(2025/05/20)

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo



Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet

(2025/05/19)

Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior



SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

(2025/05/19)

Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene



Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop

(2025/05/19)

Updated A fair dinkum disaster



European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent

(2025/05/19)

DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours



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