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How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms

Fri, 2025-10-03 07:30
UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk

Analysis In 2020, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), which provides data vital to form public sector policy and allocate resources, launched a plan to integrate government data and provide "high quality analysis that reflects the diversity of economic and social experience in our country."…

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Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Fri, 2025-10-03 06:30
Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid

On Call By Friday morning, techies may need a jolt of energy to get through the final day of the working week, so we deliver it in the form of a new instalment of On-Call, the weekly reader-contributed column that shares your tales of trying to deliver speedy tech support.…

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Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane

Thu, 2025-10-02 23:45
No injuries, but the FAA and NTSB are investigating

Amazon has grounded its drone fleet in Arizona after two of the airborne delivery vehicles crashed on Wednesday.…

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Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations

Thu, 2025-10-02 23:13
Agentforce Vibes is a new AI-assisted IDE for building Salesforce apps and agents

Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds.…

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Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

Thu, 2025-10-02 22:43
Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon

Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They're not helping the US military fight and win wars.…

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Ransomware scumbags say they deleted kids' info after other gangs called them out

Thu, 2025-10-02 21:21
Honor among thieves - extortion is fine, but no juveniles, please

A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals.…

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Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

Thu, 2025-10-02 20:41
Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator

Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.…

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College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say

Thu, 2025-10-02 20:10
Police say they found the evidence on his phone

A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. …

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Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad

Thu, 2025-10-02 19:18
Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely

Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.…

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UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

Thu, 2025-10-02 18:43
One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times

Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't. …

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Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

Thu, 2025-10-02 17:47
And don't even get him started on AI

interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job. …

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Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

Thu, 2025-10-02 17:04
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order

A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.…

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Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

Thu, 2025-10-02 16:39
Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking

How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it.…

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Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

Thu, 2025-10-02 15:27
Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish – just like any other AI

Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever – the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox.…

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OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

Thu, 2025-10-02 15:09
Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month

OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet.…

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Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance

Thu, 2025-10-02 14:54
Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?

The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."…

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SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research

Thu, 2025-10-02 13:59
Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is warning that organizations need to rethink their approach to buying software as the ongoing push of SaaS into the market gathers pace.…

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Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials

Thu, 2025-10-02 13:09
Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling

Improvements in repairability might have been made elsewhere in Apple's product range, but the AirPods Pro 3 model continue to make repairs virtually impossible.…

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Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

Thu, 2025-10-02 12:45
Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach

Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers.…

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Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Thu, 2025-10-02 12:25
Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates

With just days remaining until Microsoft discontinues free support, Windows 10 still accounts for 40.5 percent of the Windows desktop market, At the same time, Windows 11 adoption remains at just 48.94 percent.…

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