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)

Africa's boardless, bossless, generally troubled internet registry to hold elections in June

(2025/04/22)

Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process



Bug hunter tricked SSL.com into issuing cert for Alibaba Cloud domain in 5 steps

(2025/04/22)

10 other certificates 'were mis-issued and have now been revoked'



ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

(2025/04/22)

Sam says it's Son's money well spent



America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

(2025/04/21)

No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis



Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

(2025/04/21)

Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours



ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

(2025/04/21)

Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently



Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

(2025/04/21)

It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets



Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic's USB-C for AI

(2025/04/21)

Hands On Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows



Developer scored huge own goal by deleting almost every football fan in Europe

(2025/04/21)

Who, Me? Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong?



Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern

(2025/04/20)

Comment On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts



HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

(2025/04/19)

When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously



Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

(2025/04/19)

Video AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done



What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight

(2025/04/19)

Oh. You expected serious suggestions?



Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

(2025/04/19)

Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?



Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

(2025/04/18)

Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void) ...



Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

(2025/04/18)

Updated Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes



Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter

(2025/04/18)

Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified



CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

(2025/04/18)

Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?



Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

(2025/04/18)

On Call Lad who 'stays in his bedroom on his computer' emerged ready to deliver brilliant tech support



IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

(2025/04/18)

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge



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