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)

Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?

(2025/01/20)

Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers



Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

(2025/01/20)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more



When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight

(2025/01/20)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company



Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

(2025/01/20)

The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place



OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

(2025/01/19)

The S in LLM stands for Security



Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings

(2025/01/18)

Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home



Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper

(2025/01/18)

Gaia makes its final science observation



How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

(2025/01/18)

Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like?



CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump's Homeland Sec pick: And that's none of your concern

(2025/01/18)

Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem



Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

(2025/01/18)

Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds



FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it

(2025/01/17)

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping



Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

(2025/01/17)

Analysis Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive



China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies

(2025/01/17)

Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors



Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading

(2025/01/17)

Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year



Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban

(2025/01/17)

Updated With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over



EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms

(2025/01/17)

Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election



Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

(2025/01/17)

Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast



Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

(2025/01/17)

€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027



Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month

(2025/01/17)

UPDATE: For those of you tearing your hair out, we have a way to disable AI assistant in Word



Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

(2025/01/17)

Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved'



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