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UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Exclusive The UK government has admitted its negotiating power over billions of pounds of cloud infrastructure spending has been inhibited by vendor lock-in.…
Vodafone and Three's UK merger hits regulatory roadblock
Britain's competition regulator is kicking off a deeper investigation into the potential impact caused by the merger of Vodafone and Three in the UK after neither resolved previously expressed concerns.…
Ransomware gang <em>did</em> steal residents' confidential data, UK city council admits
Leicester City Council is finally admitting its "cyber incident" was carried out by a ransomware gang and that data was stolen, hours after the criminals forced its hand.…
65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
Sixty-five years ago this week, NASA introduced its first astronauts, saying they'd be launched into space in the agency's new capsule. They were immediately dubbed The Mercury 7.…
How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel
Interview HashiCorp might be less than impressed with the rise of the Terraform fork, OpenTofu, but where Hashi sees challenges, the maintainers of the open source project see opportunities.…
Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them
It's always interesting to see how technology executives crop their marketing messages to suit the audience.…
Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens
Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley.…
Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks: Gartner
Three imminent improvements to the Ethernet standard will make it a better alternative to host AI workloads, and that will see vendors back the tech as an alternative to Nvidia's InfiniBand kit, which is set to dominate for the next two years.…
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door
The OpenInfra Foundation has loosed an update of OpenStack on the waiting world and – like everyone else that can spell "virtualization" – has pitched it as fine alternative for those pondering a move away from VMware.…
TSMC shrugs off impact of Taiwan earthquake
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has shrugged off the impact of yesterday's earthquake.…
Infosys announces 'In-Person Collab' weeks
In an effort to get its employees back into the office, Infosys has reportedly instituted mandatory in-person attendance for select roles – but dubbed the program "In-Person Collab" weeks. Because that's how the young people talk, right?…
Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers
Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may well have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States.…
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Analysis The PCIe 7.0 spec is on track for release next year and, for many AI chip peddlers trying to push the limits of network fabrics and accelerator meshes, it can't come soon enough.…
Omni Hotels IT systems down since Friday, hitting bookings, payments, door locks
Luxury resort chain Omni Hotels & Resorts has had its computer systems knocked offline since Friday in what it has described as a "disruption," though sounds a lot like the MGM Resorts ransomware infection over the summer.…
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff
Hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees are being shown the door this week - a move the American technology behemoth said is necessary as it, like many others, moves to streamline operations.…
Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo
Bad news if you're income-boosting, or god forbid trying to make a living, as an Uber Eats delivery career because the robots are coming.…
FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again
The Federal Communications Commission has confirmed proposals to vote on rules to restore net neutrality in the United States later this month – whether it'll stick this time is anyone's guess, though.…
Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former co-worker
An Iowa system administrator pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing and assuming a former co-worker's identity over a 33-year period.…
Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors
Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction was expedited by the cooperation of the chief software engineer at his FTX crypto exchange, prosecutors have revealed.…
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).…