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)

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

(2025/01/23)

Opinion As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first?



Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple's mobile ecosystems

(2025/01/23)

CMA flexes its new Strategic Market Status muscles



OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup

(2025/01/23)

Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth'



Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

(2025/01/23)

Plus: 'Largest-ever' duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps



Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024

(2025/01/23)

And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain



Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

(2025/01/23)

Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks



Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress

(2025/01/23)

Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean



Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China

(2025/01/23)

What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches



Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon

(2025/01/23)

Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red



LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages

(2025/01/23)

Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit



Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands

(2025/01/23)

Markets smartwatches as health helpers even as they expose some owners to PFAS



Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

(2025/01/22)

And: America 'has never been less secure,' retired rear admiral tells Congress



Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

(2025/01/22)

The (good old) boys are back in town



Supply chain attack hits Chrome extensions, could expose millions

(2025/01/22)

Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code



Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest

(2025/01/22)

Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar



Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption

(2025/01/22)

First fondle This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers



NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life

(2025/01/22)

Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans



Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch

(2025/01/22)

Update addresses boot failures on multi-node systems



Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

(2025/01/22)

Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society



Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13

(2025/01/22)

But no changes to bcachefs



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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"