Thursday April 3, 2025
08:31
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmareRecovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…
07:30
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spendFormer official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
06:34
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over...Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. ...
05:27
Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via...Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany.…
00:14
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burdenCrawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
Wednesday April 2, 2025
22:09
Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket...Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on all imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.…
20:17
Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW...Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…
18:09
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become 'unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,' and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…
13:54
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeatFallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…
11:32
Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz AlphawaveHas until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…
10:52
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spendFormer official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
07:38
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…
06:24
Speech now streaming from brains in real-timeBoosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…
05:13
Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSesCupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…
Tuesday April 1, 2025
23:49
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rivalThunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…
13:29
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI...'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.…
12:46
Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their...Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.…
10:37
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber billTech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…
09:45
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great...What counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight 'a great success.' This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called 'New Space' – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?…
08:24
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mountLenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…