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)

GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash

(2026/04/29)

Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award



AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

(2026/04/29)

Interview No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers



Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

(2026/04/29)

Antiques code show Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes



EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

(2026/04/29)

'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'



GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

(2026/04/29)

After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide



GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks

(2026/04/29)

32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected



AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in

(2026/04/29)

Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs



Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute

(2026/04/29)

BORK!BORK!BORK! Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show



30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm

(2026/04/29)

Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw



Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

(2026/04/29)

Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere



Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

(2026/04/29)

Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species



The future of software development: Now with less software development

(2026/04/29)

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI



Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

(2026/04/28)

No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on



Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges

(2026/04/28)

PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role



OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock

(2026/04/28)

Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you



Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out

(2026/04/28)

'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'



Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

(2026/04/28)

DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects



Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

(2026/04/28)

Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks



IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

(2026/04/28)

80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags



Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps

(2026/04/28)

Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market



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... Where was Stac Electronics when Microsoft invented Doublespace? Where
were Xerox and Apple when Microsoft invented the GUI? Where was Apple's
QuickTime when Microsoft invented Video for Windows? Where was Spyglass
Inc.'s Mosaic when Microsoft invented Internet Explorer? Where was Sun
when Microsoft invented Java?