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)

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

(2025/02/08)

Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint



New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned

(2025/02/08)

Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years



Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

(2025/02/08)

Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators



Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

(2025/02/07)

Funding freeze while Feds review priorities



'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

(2025/02/07)

Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading'



NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco

(2025/02/07)

Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water



UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

(2025/02/07)

Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim



SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint

(2025/02/07)

Some of that cash is reportedly headed for $500B Stargate dream



Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

(2025/02/07)

Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck



Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)

(2025/02/07)

It's not auto-enrollment. It's just your current plan with extra Copilot for more money. Completely different



Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

(2025/02/07)

But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry



UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks

(2025/02/07)

Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders



Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

(2025/02/07)

Opinion 248-year-old democracy is not a tech startup



BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit

(2025/02/07)

Episode 3 And if that fails, there's cold, hard cash



I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

(2025/02/07)

On Call Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets



Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers

(2025/02/07)

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept



Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build

(2025/02/07)

Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age



Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims

(2025/02/07)

OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries



If Ransomware Inc was a company, its 2024 results would be a horror show

(2025/02/07)

35% drop in payments across the year as your backups got better and law enforcement made a difference



DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

(2025/02/07)

Updated We did Nazi see that coming



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