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)

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

(2025/01/30)

Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims



And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples

(2025/01/30)

It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report



DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

(2025/01/30)

Analysis Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims



Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout

(2025/01/30)

Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month



Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

(2025/01/30)

Oh someone's in DeepShi...



North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials

(2025/01/30)

Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better?



Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream

(2025/01/29)

Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B



White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

(2025/01/29)

Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans



White House 'explains' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

(2025/01/29)

'Research and various other reasons' behind hullabaloo ... but why didn't someone say that a month ago?



Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

(2025/01/29)

Not bad for 30 lines of code



Datacenters are hotter than ever, and we're not talking about rack temperatures

(2025/01/29)

Exploding market led to $73B in M&A activity in 2024



Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time

(2025/01/29)

US civil sector boldly goes where Concorde has gone before



Garmin pulls a CrowdStrike, turns smartwatches into fancy bracelets

(2025/01/29)

Blue Screen of Death becomes the Blue Triangle of Doom for your wrist



Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

(2025/01/29)

And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy



Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts

(2025/01/29)

SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget?



Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

(2025/01/29)

Fallout continues from per-employee licensing shift in 2023, survey finds



ASML makes hay while suns shines, but Trump could rain on its parade

(2025/01/29)

Netherlands biz riding AI boom, though China crackdown looms



'Bro delete the chat': Feel the panic shortly before cops bust major online fraud ring

(2025/01/29)

Mastermind begs colluders to bury evidence later used to imprison him



Hyperoptic customers left in dark as power outage takes down systems

(2025/01/29)

What falls down and doesn't get back up? Full fiber broadband in Glasgow



Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later

(2025/01/29)

Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022



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Have you ever felt like a wounded cow
halfway between an oven and a pasture?
walking in a trance toward a pregnant
seventeen-year-old housewife's
two-day-old cookbook?
-- Richard Brautigan