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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.…
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'
The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…