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Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project
The UK Post Office has confirmed it is ending in-house efforts to replace the troubled Horizon accounting and point of sale system as it launches a £410 million (c $540 million) procurement for alternative suppliers.…
EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer
Italy's Leonardo supercomputer is to get an AI upgrade to beef up support for the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal generative AI, in addition to the 13 AI factories now being procured around the EU.…
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations
Criminals who attempt to damage critical infrastructure are increasingly targeting the systems that sit between IT and operational tech.…
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree
The Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.…
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu
Patch Tuesday It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.…
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
Employees at Uncle Sam's National Science Foundation (NSF) are relieved that the Trump administration's plan to downsize the federal government collided with the US court system on Friday – but they're worried that the relief is only temporary.…
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports
Biden's controversial AI Diffusion rules, which were set to restrict the sale of American GPUs and AI accelerators beginning this week, are officially dead.…
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel's defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the x86 giant's processor designs that simply won't die.…
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
The Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish "palace in the sky" meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to presidential security standards could take years and cost hundreds of millions more.…
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull - middle managers first in line
Microsoft is axing 3 percent of its global workforce - its biggest purge since chopping 10,000 jobs in early 2023 - this time to flatten its management structure.…
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert
An update that fixed a critical flaw in data protection biz Commvault's Command Center was initially not available to a significant user subset – those testing out a free trial version of the product. That is, until a security researcher pointed out the problem.…
Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs
The Trump administration's ongoing mass firing of government employees has been put on hold, with a federal judge calling the move "likely illegal" and ordering the government to hand over evidence to prove it didn't violate the law.…
Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software
A legal claim has been brought against Microsoft over alleged licensing practices that could result in a multibillion-pound payout for UK customers.…
'We still have embeds in CISA': CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart
CYBERUK The top brass from the UK's cyber agency say everything is business as usual when it comes to the GCHQ arm's relationship with CISA, amid growing unease about the current administration's treatment of its US equivalent.…
AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs
AMD on Tuesday revealed its latest chips to get a Zen 5 refresh with the launch of its itty bitty Epyc 4005-series CPUs.…
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
A report from a British university warns that scientific knowledge itself is under threat from a flood of low-quality AI-generated research papers.…
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over
The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either disintegrating during reentry or what remained of it splashing harmlessly into the ocean.…
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info
Marks & Spencer has confirmed that customer data was stolen as part of its cyberattack, fueling conjecture that ransomware was involved.…
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems.…
Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England
The state health service for England has asked tech suppliers to submit ideas to help it build an online service for a single health record, as promised by the country's Health Minister last year.…