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UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team
Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.…
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts
Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'
Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…