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Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?
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.…
Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride
Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.…
How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms
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."…
Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast
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.…
Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane
Amazon has grounded its drone fleet in Arizona after two of the airborne delivery vehicles crashed on Wednesday.…
Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations
Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds.…
Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training
Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They're not helping the US military fight and win wars.…
Ransomware scumbags say they deleted kids' info after other gangs called them out
A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals.…
Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips
Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.…
College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say
A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. …
Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad
Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.…