Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport
Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0
Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims
Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
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Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment
Remembering the fallen giant's first UK office
On-Prem22 Mar 2025 | 7
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 26
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks
Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 8
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine
On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 7
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent
Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 11
Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales
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Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 25
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry
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Applications21 Mar 2025 | 16
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states
Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism'
Legal21 Mar 2025 | 72
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT
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Networks21 Mar 2025 | 21
BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?
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BOFH21 Mar 2025 | 71
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Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip
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CTO Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
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AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud
Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data
Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 8
Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims
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Research21 Mar 2025 | 8
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport
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On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 222
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content
Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 38
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard
FYI We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue
Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly
Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records
Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 13
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims
Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising
AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 25
Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up
So much for that vacation
Public Sector20 Mar 2025 | 45
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder
Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues
AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 48
Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist
Palming off the blame using an ‘unknown’ best practice didn’t go down well either
Patches20 Mar 2025 | 7
Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again
Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster
Personal Tech20 Mar 2025 | 115
Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users
Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud
Databases20 Mar 2025 | 1
Netlify becomes official deployment host for TanStack as alternative to Next.js and ‘vendor lock-in’
Graphite debuts Diamond AI code reviewer, insists ‘AI will never replace human code review’
DuckDB project releases Local web UI, but not as open source
Microsoft previews new XML format for Visual Studio solutions – but replacing a longstanding format is a messy business
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Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0
Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
Software20 Mar 2025 | 145
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps
Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough?
Science20 Mar 2025 | 39
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing
Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty
Systems20 Mar 2025 | 10
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip
CXO Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice
How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation
Security20 Mar 2025 | 10
The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK's NCSC
Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade
Security20 Mar 2025 | 21
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update
Testing? We've heard of it
Applications20 Mar 2025 | 49
SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support
You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs
OSes20 Mar 2025 | 7
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools
VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers'
Networks20 Mar 2025 | 24
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform
Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts
Databases20 Mar 2025 | 11
The need for speed: ADC for efficient AI data management
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Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits
Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month
OSes20 Mar 2025 | 36
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space
Begun, preparation for orbital wars has
Science20 Mar 2025 | 48
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing
Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market
On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 4
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators
Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it
AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 2
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional
Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money
Legal19 Mar 2025 | 88
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union
SSNs, payment details, and health info too
Cyber-crime19 Mar 2025 | 3
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank
Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand
Bootnotes19 Mar 2025 | 15
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list
Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS
Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 8
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX
Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in
Patches19 Mar 2025 | 4
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?
Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 51
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 131
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
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China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust
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Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point
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US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs
Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown
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