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Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath
Italian rocket company Avio has signed a €40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers.…
Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files
A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …
Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike
Exclusive Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account.…
Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects
Updated The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to £27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services.…
Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures
Lloyds Banking Group — the £18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank — has promised that it will continue to use “digitization” to power a program of branch closures.…
Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy
Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software.…
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array’s (SKA’s) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope.…
New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses
New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation.…
Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising.…