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ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case
The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.…
Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns
The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.…
Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh
Intel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range.…
Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system
Exclusive If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.…
Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half
Photonics startup LightMatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.…
Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.…
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.…
Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards
Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who detectives suspect was responsible for 16 bank card frauds across the Netherlands.…
Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study
Broadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.…
Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not
From the department of "what could possibly go wrong?" comes news that Windows Autopatch is enabling hotpatch security updates by default.…
EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later
Analysis One of the European Union's top legal advisors is trying to change how banks treat cybercrime victims – meaning they could enjoy greater financial protections sooner than expected.…
Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy
Feature Hyperscale computing was built on a foundation of certainty. For years, 12V and 48V rack architectures – implemented at a steady 50–54 VDC (Volts of Direct Current) - ruled the datacenter floor, engineered to perfection for power densities of 10–15 kW per rack. These systems were finely tuned machines, optimized around the predictable, steady-state demands of general-purpose CPUs and storage servers. The infrastructure was stable. The math was settled.…
Watchdog clears £142M Post Office subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill
The UK's competition regulator has given a conditional thumbs-up to a request for £141.8 million in subsidies to the Post Office – a publicly owned company – to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal in the coming year and a tax liability.…
Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it
The UK government has refused to estimate the cost of its digital identity system, saying this depends on what it decides after a consultation exercise launched yesterday.…
AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before
Opinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…
Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower
Atlassian has admitted that the tools it developed to move Jira users into the cloud were actually slower than older code that did the same job, and that its efforts to speed things up also had speed problems.…
Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse
Oracle says AI code generation tools have become so efficient, and it is so good at using them, that it will dodge the SaaSpocalypse and watch smaller rivals suffer.…
Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war
The US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.…
AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure
Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…
Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack
After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…