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)

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

(2025/02/05)

Will now happily unleash the bots when 'likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks'



Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

(2025/02/05)

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least



China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs

(2025/02/04)

Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own



FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit

(2025/02/04)

Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist?



OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit

(2025/02/04)

Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory'



Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years

(2025/02/04)

Researcher says ecosystem's auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks



Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO

(2025/02/04)

Um, does anyone wanna switch seats?



Grubhub serves up security incident with a side of needing to change your password

(2025/02/04)

Contact info and partial payment details may be compromised



US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

(2025/02/04)

Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law'



Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024

(2025/02/04)

Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung



Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast

(2025/02/04)

Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing



Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

(2025/02/04)

Comment No reason to upgrade other than the looming end of Windows 10



Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets

(2025/02/04)

Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months



Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'

(2025/02/04)

When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97



Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

(2025/02/04)

Everybody is going to play nice, OK?



UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young

(2025/02/04)

Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog



Google patches odd Android kernel security bug amid signs of targeted exploitation

(2025/02/04)

Also, Netgear fixes critical router, access point vulnerabilities



Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes

(2025/02/04)

GPU giant could just wait eight minutes for Donald to change his mind



Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

(2025/02/04)

Who better to trust trillions of dollars, SSNs and other sensitive info with than Elon



US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

(2025/02/03)

As UK proposes laws against neural-nets-for-pedophiles



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