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)

IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door

(2025/01/17)

With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B



Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council

(2025/01/17)

Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand



Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration

(2025/01/17)

Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory



Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight

(2025/01/17)

On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device



Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

(2025/01/17)

If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever



AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops

(2025/01/17)

Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats



SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero

(2025/01/17)

Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris



Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling

(2025/01/17)

Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in



GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

(2025/01/17)

We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC



In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

(2025/01/16)

Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows



Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules

(2025/01/16)

Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too



Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts

(2025/01/16)

updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says



TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026

(2025/01/16)

You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips



Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M

(2025/01/16)

That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year



Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

(2025/01/16)

The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year



Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge

(2025/01/16)

Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade



Google reports halving code migration time with AI help

(2025/01/16)

Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas



AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach

(2025/01/16)

Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents



Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

(2025/01/16)

Regulator asks people to link their credit cards, mobile accounts, or face scans for smut use to protect kids



Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5

(2025/01/16)

The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce



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"An Academic speculated whether a bather is beautiful
if there is none in the forest to admire her. He hid
in the bushes to find out, which vitiated his premise
but made him happy.
Moral: Empiricism is more fun than speculation."
-- Sam Weber