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)

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

(2026/04/24)

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1



Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

(2026/04/24)

New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads



Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

(2026/04/24)

What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?



US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

(2026/04/24)

Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere



ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

(2026/04/24)

Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records



Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

(2026/04/24)

Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency



More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

(2026/04/24)

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers



OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party

(2026/04/24)

Grafanacon We gotta get boring to get graduated



Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

(2026/04/24)

Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk



Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table

(2026/04/24)

Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips



Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores

(2026/04/24)

After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse



Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages

(2026/04/24)

Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives



It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

(2026/04/24)

Black Hat Asia OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs



Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

(2026/04/24)

Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up



BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges

(2026/04/24)

Episode 8 Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?



Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

(2026/04/24)

Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border



UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

(2026/04/24)

Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed



Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists

(2026/04/24)

Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice



To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

(2026/04/24)

On Call Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?



Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

(2026/04/24)

Black Hat Asia FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us today



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