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)

It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard

(2025/03/20)

We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue



HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

(2025/03/19)

Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money



Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union

(2025/03/19)

SSNs, payment details, and health info too



Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank

(2025/03/19)

Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand



EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list

(2025/03/19)

Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS



IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX

(2025/03/19)

Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in



VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

(2025/03/19)

How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?



Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

(2025/03/19)

Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'



Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful

(2025/03/19)

GTC Qubit awkward, you might say



Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

(2025/03/19)

Comment Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money



Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware

(2025/03/19)

Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work



Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

(2025/03/19)

Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line



Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel

(2025/03/19)

Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap



Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects

(2025/03/19)

Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL



'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

(2025/03/19)

Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day



Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech

(2025/03/19)

GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on



Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

(2025/03/19)

It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel



Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year

(2025/03/19)

'Three-year' tech support deal still running



Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training

(2025/03/19)

One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out



Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways

(2025/03/19)

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout



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Climate and Surgery
R C Gilchrist, who was shot by J Sharp twelve days ago, and who
received a derringer ball in the right breast, and who it was supposed at
the time could not live many hours, was on the street yesterday and the
day before -- walking several blocks at a time. To those who design to be
riddled with bullets or cut to pieces with Bowie-knives, we cordially
recommend our Sacramento climate and Sacramento surgery.
-- Sacramento Daily Union, September 11, 1861