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)

Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws

(2025/03/12)

Patch Tuesday Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy



Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

(2025/03/11)

Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears



Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

(2025/03/11)

Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry



Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

(2025/03/11)

Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27



'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months

(2025/03/11)

Exclusive Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database … what could possibly go wrong



FTC's $25.5M scam refund treats victims to $34 each

(2025/03/11)

Oh wow, just look at all the scary stuff in your Windows Event Viewer



From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up

(2025/03/11)

Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm



Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users

(2025/03/11)

Folks with LaserJets complain of error code even when using approved supplies



Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?

(2025/03/11)

COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it



Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators

(2025/03/11)

Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face



Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released

(2025/03/11)

First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more



Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices

(2025/03/11)

Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross



Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

(2025/03/11)

It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live



Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

(2025/03/11)

1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029



MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

(2025/03/11)

Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it



IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

(2025/03/11)

Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond



Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

(2025/03/11)

The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility



Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build

(2025/03/11)

Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed



Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

(2025/03/11)

Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away



No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

(2025/03/11)

Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime



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It should be fixed, but it won't be easy and it won't be fast. If you want
to help - wonderful. But keep in mind that it will take months of wading
through the ugliest code we have in the tree. If you've got a weak stomach -
stay out. I've been there and it's not a nice place.

- Al Viro on fixing drivers