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)

Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages

(2025/02/28)

Many can't access online banking although customers can keep tapping away in shops



IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it

(2025/02/28)

Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch



One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee

(2025/02/28)

On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked



Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU

(2025/02/28)

Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source



Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators

(2025/02/28)

Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim



Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

(2025/02/27)

FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime



FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary

(2025/02/27)

Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets



AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

(2025/02/27)

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction



Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

(2025/02/27)

Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?



DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'

(2025/02/27)

How to make them, and what to use them for



Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory

(2025/02/27)

Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing



No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce

(2025/02/27)

Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers



FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline

(2025/02/27)

It looks like you have died. Would you like help?



Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside

(2025/02/27)

Some businesses sticking with Windows 10, AI boxes not reviving demand



Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter

(2025/02/27)

APRICOT Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that



30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months

(2025/02/27)

Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries



Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

(2025/02/27)

APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?



How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls

(2025/02/27)

Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find



FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license

(2025/02/27)

Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia



Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

(2025/02/27)

Updated Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity



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The world's most avid baseball fan (an Aggie) had arrived at the
stadium for the first game of the World Series only to realize he had left
his ticket at home. Not wanting to miss any of the first inning, he went
to the ticket booth and got in a long line for another seat. After an hour's
wait he was just a few feet from the booth when a voice called out, "Hey,
Dave!" The Aggie looked up, stepped out of line and tried to find the owner
of the voice -- with no success. Then he realized he had lost his place in
line and had to wait all over again. When the fan finally bought his ticket,
he was thirsty, so he went to buy a drink. The line at the concession stand
was long, too, but since the game hadn't started he decided to wait. Just as
he got to the window, a voice called out, "Hey, Dave!" Again the Aggie tried
to find the voice -- but no luck. He was very upset as he got back in line
for his drink. Finally the fan went to his seat, eager for the game to begin.
As he waited for the pitch, he heard the voice calling, "Hey Dave!" once more.
Furious, he stood up and yelled at the top of his lungs, "My name isn't Dave!"