Conveyor-belt babies and dynasties dreamed up like software projects

A growing number of tech billionaires are spending their fortunes on industrial-scale surrogacy, churning out dozens of children as if they were rolling out a product line. The aim is not family so much as legacy, built to specification and outsourced across borders.

Engineer slams normalised bloat and forgotten basics

Engineer Denis Stetskov has called time on what he sees as an era of software rot, pointing out that the fruity cargo cult Apple managed to ship a calculator app that leaks 32GB of RAM and no one gave a toss.

Big Blue’s consulting boss warns that AI agents are coming for the old guard

IBM Consulting boss Mohamad Ali has warned that consultancies will have to reinvent themselves as software companies if they want to survive the artificial intelligence revolution.

Top Brass losing the knowledge wars   

While Beijing’s war planners marry AI with arsenals like it’s a national hobby, the Pentagon is still trying to install Windows XP on a Predator drone, according to a new Atlantic Council report.

Expect this to be abandoned when Trump takes over

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a probe into Tesla's software that allows cars to operate autonomously over short distances, after reports of the code crashing.

Two zero-day holes

The fruity cargo cult, Apple has stunned its user fanbase by admitting that the software it touts as more secure than Microsoft has two zero-day security flaws.

Only taken a decade

Fruity cargo cult Apple might have  finally fixed a problem with Siri which it has known about since  September 17, 2014. 

While US dithers

According to Lawfare's cybersecurity newsletter, the European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to introducing liability for software products.

Propped up by Red Hat

Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.

Adds initial Core Ultra Meteor Lake and new GPU support

TechPowerUp has released the newest version of its GPU-Z, a comprehensive graphics sub-system information, diagnostic, and monitoring utility. The newest version adds support for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, support for a couple of new GPUS, new BIOS versions, and more.