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Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath
Italian rocket company Avio has signed a €40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers.…
Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files
A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …
Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike
Exclusive Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account.…
Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects
Updated The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to £27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services.…
Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures
Lloyds Banking Group — the £18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank — has promised that it will continue to use “digitization” to power a program of branch closures.…
Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy
Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software.…
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array’s (SKA’s) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope.…
New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses
New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation.…
Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising.…
Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down
A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline.…
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.…
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…
'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover
A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…
AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study
Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing
Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…
Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates
With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out
Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13
SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target.…