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Updated 2026-11-04 14:04
Watchdog sticks probe into Capita's handling of 1.7 million member civil service pension scheme
Public Accounts Committee talks of 'broken promises' and 'chaos' as 'thousands' of retired folk miss out on money
Cyberattack on French plasma stores is enough to make your blood boil
Attackers reportedly set cold-room controls to 110C, but safeguards prevented stock losses
Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop
Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up... and there's a new Trinity, too
Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM prices
Customers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches
Datacenter operators must win hearts and minds, not just permits
Schneider sees no slowdown despite backlash, but says communities deserve answers on power, water, and noise
China outlines plans for moonshot it hopes to land by 2030
We have go for launch, and the ethernet and Wi-Fi standards that will make it happen
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff
No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says
Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing
We've got a hunch the memory crunch is taking a bite out of Windows revenue
Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang
At Fireworks Forge, a celebration of specialized models
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets
AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization
These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and 'pursue open-ended, evolving survival'
GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather
Mobile comms body wants a joined-up approach from governments and regulators to mitigate downtime
Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries
We expected aim to matter ... What surprised us was how much,' says Sandia physicist Nathan Moore
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why
Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys
GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer
Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out
ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid
How about them apples? Plenty of personal + donation data leaked by crims, data-sifting breach site claims a year after attack
Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI
Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs
NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it
Medact flags 29 disputed entries as ministers weigh 330M deal's future
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer
Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls
Telco expects to deliver cost savings of 800M by 2029, with 300M coming from staff cuts
Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028
Cyber agency warns critical infrastructure is a likely target as chief urges bosses to stop doing 'tech on the cheap'
Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans
New CEO John Ternus toasts record sales as soaring RAM costs threaten supplies and squeeze margins
Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge
EU court's confidentiality ruling clears a procedural hurdle, not the merits of CISPE's case against Commission approval
UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog
Risks of changing climate and cost of transition to low-carbon energy poorly measured by government departments
Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round
Memory crunch pushes 16GB Pi 5 to $385, more than triple its launch price, just a month after the last round of hikes
Everyone has the file. Nobody has the right version
EVENT: Distributed teams need to collaborate, but duplicated files, delays, and competing versions keep getting in the way
Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights
'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores
Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner
Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part
Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden
OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory
Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut
Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B
Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue
Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware
Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!
These smart glasses promise to turn your silent mouth movements into text
Crazy person, or efficient employee? As always, it depends on what they're wearing
AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes
Turns out legislation may have bugs, too
Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes
Videostrong accused of shipping devices with a backdoor baked in
Marvell wants to be a copper topper, bets $115B on photonics leader to push optical networking
IP house believes optics demand is going to explode as Nvidia and others eye bigger systems
Oracle gobbles $20 billion borrowing limit a week after setting it
In the middle of a datacenter capex binge, vendor promises no more borrowing until the end of 2030
Ericsson says it can detect, track drones using only mobile networks
ISAC technology adds detection ability to existing cell networks, enabling them to track low-flying small drones
Thieves pilfer environment variables from Trigger AI workflow tool
So, who's ready to clear the dust out of that server closet and move things back on-prem?
Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges
Don't let the LLMjackers hit you
SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of... AI
'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz
Nuclear threats and street brawls: Russia, Ukraine report attacks on their emergency alert apps
Within minutes of a ceasefire lifting in Kherson, Ukraine's citizens were pummelled with threatening notifications
Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota
Canadian regions stop turning back the clocks, Microsoft wishes it could
Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again
Let it go (bad): Dozens of stores report mass food wastage as managers start their week in puddles
Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions
Pity Sam Altman: He's going to have a lot more explaining to do when OpenAI follows this work of abstract legal art
FBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers
Exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds as customers withdraw billions and hackers get busy laundering their haul
Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can
'It helps me stretch what I can do in the current age of AI coding, and keeps my curiosity alive'
Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it
Flash the cash, flush the cache
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