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UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools
UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is preparing to retire its 3G services, and is set to start with the city of Durham in northeast England this April.…
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform
The majority of SAP's ECC users have not purchased licenses for S/4HANA – meaning its unlikely some of the world's largest businesses will migrate before mainstream support for the legancy platform ends in 2027.…
Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits
Another developer has dropped out of Asahi Linux, the project to get Linux up and running on Apple silicon.…
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space
China has practiced co-ordinated satellite maneuvers in space that resemble aerial combat, according to a US Space Force General.…
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing
Japanese tech investment house SoftBank Group has announced its intention to acquire Ampere Computing, the chip design firm that makes server-grade silicon based on the Arm architecture.…
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as it wrings more performance from fewer accelerators
Chinese tech giant Tencent has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek.…
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard
IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff the company's Cloud Classic operation.…
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional
HP Inc. has settled a class action lawsuit in which it was accused of unlawfully blocking customers from using third-party toner cartridges - a practice that left some with useless printers – but won’t pay a cent to make the case go away.…
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.…
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank
One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.…
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list
A year after kicking off its probe into three American tech giants, the European Union has fired off two sets of preliminary findings accusing Google parent Alphabet of failing to comply with Europe's monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX
IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score.…
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.…
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.…
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
GTC Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry
Comment US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs.…
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.…
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense
Comment The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.…
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel
If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone.…
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects
Analysis Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers.…