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UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor
The UK’s chief auditor has claimed the government could save at least £20 billion by modernizing IT systems and other measures.…
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
Retro Tech Week Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, Sir Clive Sinclair launched his unprecedentedly powerful yet affordable Motorola-powered SOHO computer – starting a line of hardware and software that, remarkably, is still going.…
Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse
Datacenter operator Deep Green has bagged £200 million ($254 million) from power provider Octopus Energy to help scale deployments that give municipal sites free heat in exchange for cooling its IT hardware.…
Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard?
Retro Tech Week Keeping old computers running for everyone to enjoy is getting increasingly difficult as the years pass. Parts get harder to obtain, and the skills needed start fading away.…
Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company
Samsung’s battery unit may have found part of a solution to sourcing the raw materials needed for the products it packs into gadgets and cars: buy a nickel mine. Or part of a nickel mine, at least.…
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
Retro Tech Week Judges pondering contenders for the title of “World’s Worst PC Keyboard, Ever”, seldom look too far beyond Sinclair’s ZX80, which offered a membrane that caused attached screens to flicker with every keystroke.…
India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions
India’s Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has announced that import restrictions targeting PCs will not include desktop computers, adding another twist to the strange saga of the nation’s plan to require import licenses for many types of computers.…
China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia
Global crime networks have set up shop in autonomous territories run by armed gangs across Southeast Asia, and are using them to host physical and online casinos that, in concert with crypto exchanges, have led to an explosion of money laundering, cyberfraud, and cybercrime across the region and beyond.…
Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone
Microsoft has revealed new versions of its OpenAI-powered Copilot services, at prices around triple the cost of its flagship M365 suite.…
Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion
SpaceX boss Elon Musk has blamed a lack of payload coupled with the venting of liquid oxygen for last year's fiery end to the second flight of the company's Starship and Super Heavy combo.…
Thousands of Juniper Networks devices vulnerable to critical RCE bug
More than 11,500 Juniper Networks devices are exposed to a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, and infosec researchers are pressing admins to urgently apply the patches.…
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days
Astrobotic has confirmed that the doomed Peregrine Lunar Lander's mission will end on Thursday, January 18 with the spacecraft burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.…
Patch time: Critical GitLab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers
GitLab admins should apply the latest batch of security patches pronto given the new critical account-bypass vulnerability just disclosed.…
Reports China's military is using Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge
Web giant Baidu's stock is down 12 percent after a report linked its AI platform with the Chinese military, amid separate claims the Middle Kingdon's armed forces are sidestepping US sanctions to buy Nvidia GPUs.…
FTC secures first databroker settlement banning sale of sensitive location data
Infosec in brief The US Federal Trade Commission has secured its first data broker settlement agreement, prohibiting X-Mode Social from sharing or selling sensitive location data.…
Eben Upton on Sinclair, Acorn, and the Raspberry Pi
Interview Inspired at least in part by Pi creator Eben Upton's dalliances with the home computers of the 1980s, the Raspberry Pi casts a long shadow over the retro computing world.…
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized
Cloud providers have deployed tens of thousands of GPUs and AI accelerators in their race to capitalize on the surge in demand for large language models.…
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup
Microsoft is experimenting with having Copilot open automatically upon Windows startup.…
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster
Scientists have developed a platform based around a robot guided by an AI-based computer system, which could slash the time for engineering new proteins from months to weeks.…
CDW settles in lawsuit with rival reseller over Cisco sales
CDW, the world's largest reseller, has reached a settlement with relative minnow in an antitrust case involving Cisco.…