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)

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

(2025/01/07)

CES It'll all end in tiers



3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

(2025/01/07)

Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol



New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to plan New Year's Day massacre

(2025/01/07)

But Jabbar did not live stream his actions on Jan 1, FBI confirmed



Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit

(2025/01/06)

comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI



Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

(2025/01/06)

CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong!



Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China's Salt Typhoon victim list

(2025/01/06)

Slow drip of compromised telecom networks continues



Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

(2025/01/06)

If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice



FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices

(2025/01/06)

Once installed, it helps itself to your data like it's a free buffet



Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

(2025/01/06)

Leap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor



MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns

(2025/01/06)

Manufacturers should have had ample time to apply the fixes



AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

(2025/01/06)

With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait



SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test

(2025/01/06)

Ten suborbital Starlink simulators to be flung from Musk's spacecraft



Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

(2025/01/06)

Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap



Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters

(2025/01/06)

But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand



Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown

(2025/01/06)

Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago



After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

(2025/01/06)

Opinion If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble



Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken

(2025/01/06)

Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business



Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July

(2025/01/06)

Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan?



Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables

(2025/01/06)

More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements?



Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

(2025/01/06)

Infosec in Brief PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more



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