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React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components
Devographics has published its State of React survey, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem.…
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools
The European Parliament has reportedly turned off AI features on lawmakers' devices amid concerns about content going where it shouldn't.…
Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper
The AI hype cycle has officially reached the toilet, with a Japanese bathroom giant suddenly being pitched as a serious tech play.…
Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, which Big Red owns.…
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
The UK's long-promised "Single Trade Window" has quietly run out of steam after burning through more than £111 million ($150 million), with officials confirming the program has been "brought to early closure."…
All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job
The Trump administration is looking for a deputy federal CIO, and theater fans need not apply.…
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.…
Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid
Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.…
Gentoo moves to Codeberg from GitHub after airing Copilot concerns
Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."…
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
The clock is ticking for AI projects to either prove their worth or face the chopping block.…
UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…
Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.…
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog
Capita is banking on Microsoft Copilot to help rescue the backlog of cases it has inherited in taking over the UK Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS).…
GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept
Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview, following their introduction at the Universe event in San Francisco last year.…
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost
Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.…
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors
A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.…
AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.…
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.…
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Dutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back.…
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks
Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.…