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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 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'
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
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 $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown
The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific
Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…
Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders
Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. …
AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games
While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.…
Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space
With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.…
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official
Once tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no longer owe OpenAI a revenue share.…