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)

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

(2026/03/28)

The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public



To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer

(2026/03/28)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days



Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion

(2026/03/27)

New campus to include on-site power generation



Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

(2026/03/27)

Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it



Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

(2026/03/27)

Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers



Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption

(2026/03/27)

Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue



Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program

(2026/03/27)

Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust



Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

(2026/03/27)

Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence



AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans

(2026/03/27)

Vulns in Dutch football club's systems didn't just expose data – they let outsiders play with accounts, and even lift stadium bans



BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?

(2026/03/27)

Episode 6 Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics



Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones

(2026/03/27)

US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadline



Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users

(2026/03/27)

A botched update mixed up transaction data across accounts, with thousands now receiving goodwill payouts



UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch

(2026/03/27)

PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text



Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

(2026/03/27)

On Call The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat



Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

(2026/03/27)

Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code



India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril

(2026/03/27)

Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open



China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country

(2026/03/27)

Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition



Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

(2026/03/26)

AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity



AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

(2026/03/26)

You actually think companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age?



AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

(2026/03/26)

Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.



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Long ago, in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL
character named Jack. Jack and his relations were poor. Often their
hash table was bare. One day Jack's parent said to him, "Our matrices
are sparse. You must go to the market to exchange our RAM for some
BASICs." She compiled a linked list of items to retrieve and passed it
to him.
So Jack set out. But as he was walking along a Hamilton path,
he met the traveling salesman.
"Whither dost thy flow chart take thou?" prompted the salesman
in high-level language.
"I'm going to the market to exchange this RAM for some chips
and Apples," commented Jack.
"I have a much better algorithm. You needn't join a queue
there; I will swap your RAM for these magic kernels now."
Jack made the trade, then backtracked to his house. But when
he told his busy-waiting parent of the deal, she became so angry she
started thrashing.
"Don't you even have any artificial intelligence? All these
kernels together hardly make up one byte," and she popped them out the
window...
-- Mark Isaak, "Jack and the Beanstack"