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)

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

(2025/05/08)

Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load



PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

(2025/05/08)

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends



After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI

(2025/05/08)

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'



India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop

(2025/05/08)

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity



Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

(2025/05/07)

Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co



Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal

(2025/05/07)

Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl



Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos

(2025/05/07)

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed



You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

(2025/05/07)

We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer



Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro

(2025/05/07)

Modern Linux, vintage kernel



90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

(2025/05/07)

United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts



Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell

(2025/05/07)

Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in



Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages

(2025/05/07)

Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit



Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

(2025/05/07)

Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right?



NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

(2025/05/07)

It's not rocket science, it's budgeting



Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

(2025/05/07)

Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'



Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

(2025/05/07)

Comment Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?



Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

(2025/05/07)

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped



Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

(2025/05/07)

Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'



Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs

(2025/05/07)

World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious



New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

(2025/05/07)

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote



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