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Manchester ATM ups PIN requirement to full Windows login
Bork!Bork!Bork! Just because Microsoft has ended support doesn't mean an operating system will suddenly disappear. Take this crusty ATM running Windows 7 in the fair city of Manchester, England.…
MPs ask who's responsible when AI crashes the UK finance system
UK financial regulators must conduct stress testing to ensure businesses are ready for AI-driven market shocks, MPs have warned.…
England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director
England's Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting a head of technology, digital and data at a maximum salary of up to £285,000 a year, well above that most recently advertised for the department's boss.…
£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again
The UK government has delayed publication of its long-promised digital roadmap, a plan it says could eventually help save up to £45 billion of taxpayers' money by modernizing creaking public sector IT.…
UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads
The head of the UK’s Gambling Commission has accused social media giant Meta of lying about its ability to proactively detect operators of illegal casinos advertising on its services.…
Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone
Interview After Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider Akamai’s CEO Dr. Tom Leighton fired back with what reads a lot like thinly veiled criticism.…
Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase
Micron has found a way to add new DRAM manufacturing capacity in a hurry by acquiring a chipmaking campus from Taiwanese outfit Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC).…
ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake
Seven out of ten C-suite leaders see a life beyond ERP as businesses have come to know it, but are divided on what the future holds for this big-ticket item critical to organizational performance.…
Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing
A Jordanian national faces sentencing in the US after pleading guilty to acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for various cyberattacks.…
Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking
The promise of Just the Browser sounds good. Rather than fork one of the big-name browsers, just run a tiny script that turns off all the bits and functions you don't want.…
NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket arrives at the launch pad
NASA's monster Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has trundled out to the launch pad – though the upper stage and Orion spacecraft look uncannily like a prop from a 1980s British children's television show.…
Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins
Today's a critical day for administrators managing a fleet of mobile devices via Microsoft Intune. Without updates, apps - including Microsoft's own - may stop working.…
Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK's cyber crew
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is once again warning that pro-Russia hacktivists are a threat to critical services operators.…
Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control
Microsoft has rushed out an out-of-band Windows 11 update after January's Patch Tuesday broke something as fundamental as turning PCs off.…
Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination
The chief constable of West Midlands Police has retired after his force used fictional output from Microsoft Copilot in deciding to ban Israeli fans from attending a football match at Birmingham club Aston Villa.…
Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records
Ingram Micro disclosed that a July 2025 ransomware attack compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of employees.…
UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids
The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…
Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT
A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms with "very limited access" to IT systems.…
Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs
The majority of PCs that commercial resellers shipped to enterprise customers in Q4 were AI-capable, however, it was the traditional levers of price, battery life and performance these biz buyers were mostly sold on.…
Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight
The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is planned to operate from its ships in support of missions, including hunting for hostile submarines.…