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SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.…
VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination
VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination
VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild
More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Bork!Bork!Bork! Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.…
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
Antiques Code Show Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…