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)

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

(2026/02/25)

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security



Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training

(2026/02/25)

Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment



Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

(2026/02/25)

Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US



Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

(2026/02/25)

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude



Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

(2026/02/25)

As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid



Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted

(2026/02/25)

Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring



Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

(2026/02/25)

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'



Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

(2026/02/25)

Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits



Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values

(2026/02/25)

Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis



DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation

(2026/02/25)

Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement



OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents

(2026/02/25)

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary



Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves

(2026/02/25)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Dude, where's my operating system?



Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find

(2026/02/25)

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts



HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent

(2026/02/25)

Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster



Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

(2026/02/25)

Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds



Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast

(2026/02/25)

Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise



Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

(2026/02/25)

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance



It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding

(2026/02/25)

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon



Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

(2026/02/24)

opinion Protect the robot, sacrifice the human



AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them

(2026/02/24)

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t



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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared
to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
-- Havelock Ellis