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Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins
Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber
A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and lower latencies.…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty
Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.…

