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)

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers

(2026/04/24)

Black Hat Asia Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere



Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter

(2026/04/24)

System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline



Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code'

(2026/04/23)

EXCLUSIVE Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it worked



Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why

(2026/04/23)

Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate



Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain

(2026/04/23)

Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing



Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn

(2026/04/23)

All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once



US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes

(2026/04/23)

Three vendors matched to three sites



YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

(2026/04/23)

What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?



Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors

(2026/04/23)

Google Cloud Next 'Differentiated, but open'



Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

(2026/04/23)

Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone online



Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

(2026/04/23)

Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand



Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

(2026/04/23)

Down to you to work out the value



Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%

(2026/04/23)

Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions



Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule

(2026/04/23)

Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences



American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir

(2026/04/23)

Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things



AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers

(2026/04/23)

Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear



Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals

(2026/04/23)

Updated World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace



Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either

(2026/04/23)

Black Hat Asia Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa



Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet

(2026/04/23)

EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon



AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues

(2026/04/23)

Rise of the Machines Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy



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unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
-- Edward Gibbon