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UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS
In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…
Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Interview When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…
'Major compromise' at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes
Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…
AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say
Exclusive Software developers largely appreciate the productivity improvements they get from AI coding tools, but they don't entirely trust their output, according to a survey conducted by AI coding biz Qodo.…
UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops
The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh – less than a year after cancelling an identical plan.…
CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents
Cisco Live Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores.…
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…
Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU - that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere
Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services.…
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process.…
US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens
US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight.…
DARPA is exploring a swallowable device that could tweak soldiers’ stress responses
DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD.…
Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices
OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."…
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74.…
Hire me! To drop malware on your computer
In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…
Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks
Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…
Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them
After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees.…
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees
Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.…
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.…
Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown
Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime.…