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Updated 2026-07-31 15:00
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
A nice little summer job for someone
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin
Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney
"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"
LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower
AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu
Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech
High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals
Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement
Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life
From individual achievement to partner impact
PARTNER CONTENT: Databricks survey data suggests certified professionals lift partner delivery capacity, customer credibility, and AI readiness well beyond the individuals who earn the credential
Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold
Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew
Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts
Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook
New button beside the ribbon promises consistency - and more questions for admins
Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button
FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges
MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future
Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time
Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage
Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up
Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
Schools often don't prioritize or understand cybersecurity
Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law
If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one
Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees
Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible
Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements
Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest
Capex spending? What? Me worry?
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud
Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel
Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba
Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake
Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute
FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson
MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish
AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off
The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy
PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning
Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning
Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package
Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26
NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure
Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise
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