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All eyes on markets for AI Bubble Watch: Is it a Floater or a Popper?

Fri, 2025-10-03 12:23
Exploding valuations and mountains of debt co-exist with a US government shutdown. How long can we stay on the hype-cycle rollercoaster?

Analysis In an employee share sell-off this week, OpenAI achieved a nominal value of $500 billion. In terms of valuation, the posterchild of GenAI — which is yet to make a profit — left in its dust companies like Toyota, the world's largest automaker.…

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UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

Fri, 2025-10-03 12:05
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched

The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched.…

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Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved

Fri, 2025-10-03 11:38
Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs

Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems.…

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Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal

Fri, 2025-10-03 10:09
Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris

An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO's new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy.…

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Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Fri, 2025-10-03 09:06
UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute

Reusing heat from servers has gained momentum recent years, but UK Power Networks (UKPN) is taking an unusual approach: installing mini datacenters powered by Raspberry Pi hardware in customers homes to provide heating for families struggling with energy costs.…

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Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride

Fri, 2025-10-03 08:55
Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt

Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.…

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How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms

Fri, 2025-10-03 07:30
UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk

Analysis In 2020, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), which provides data vital to form public sector policy and allocate resources, launched a plan to integrate government data and provide "high quality analysis that reflects the diversity of economic and social experience in our country."…

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Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Fri, 2025-10-03 06:30
Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid

On Call By Friday morning, techies may need a jolt of energy to get through the final day of the working week, so we deliver it in the form of a new instalment of On-Call, the weekly reader-contributed column that shares your tales of trying to deliver speedy tech support.…

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Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane

Thu, 2025-10-02 23:45
No injuries, but the FAA and NTSB are investigating

Amazon has grounded its drone fleet in Arizona after two of the airborne delivery vehicles crashed on Wednesday.…

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Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations

Thu, 2025-10-02 23:13
Agentforce Vibes is a new AI-assisted IDE for building Salesforce apps and agents

Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds.…

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