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