Can be done with a smartphone or even a Linux computer

A top boffin has discovered a way to use his smartphone or Linux computer to crack RSA-2048 encryption.

First to part from landlines

Telecom Italia, which has the Monty Python acronym Tim, has flogged off its fixed-line network to US private equity firm KKR for €19 billion.

Even its staff hate the paywall

It is starting to look like Red Hat will have its first rebellion on its hands after announcing that it will paywall Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL.

Imaginatively titled xAI

With much hype and years behind the rest of the industry, Elon [look at me] Musk has released an AI chatbot, despite saying he would never do that.

Can’t sell it to give them an unfair advantage

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has made Facebook and Amazon promise not to sell third-party seller data that gives it an unfair commercial advantage.

MSN.com has become false and bizarre

One of the world’s most visited websites, MSN.com has gone down the toilet because Microsoft decided to use AI to curate the site.

Six years of updates in some cases 

Microsoft has extended the firmware update support for some Surface PCs from four to six years.

It was a long time coming

Linus Torvalds removed some 65,219 lines of Itanium-supporting code in a commit earlier this week, giving the architecture a “well-earned retirement as planned.

Samsung and Qualcomm are rumoured to have signed up

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that  Samsung and Qualcomm have signed up for AMD's FSR "FidelityFX Super Resolution" & Ray Tracing Technologies,

Even if half of them are dead

More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, John, Paul, George and Ringo have released a final track, thanks to AI.