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Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced 10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year....

And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack Interview When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points....

Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal....

A survey from AI biz Qodo finds robo-coding productivity gains are unevenly distributed Exclusive Software developers largely appreciate the productivity improvements they get from AI coding tools, but they don't entirely trust their output, according to a survey conducted by AI coding biz Qodo....

Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh - less than a year after cancelling an identical plan....

UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited Cisco Live Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores....

Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Occupants of planet Earth can't see the Sun's poles - unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home....

Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services....

'BrowserVenom' is pure poison Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom"....

Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process....

Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight....

Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD....

Everything is AWESOME!!! OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."...

His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74....

FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites....

The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking....

Customers weren't sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees....

Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta....

All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers....

Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime....

It's still smoking, but help is on hand A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship....

With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on GTC Paris Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads....

Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable' Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."...

Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer....

14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors The UK has bet big on nuclear power - both big and small - following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments....

On your marks, get set... bork! Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage....

How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal....

Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it's hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable....

Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology....

The botnet's still alive and evolving Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme....

AI could bring a new round of browser wars Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant....

Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE! Patch Tuesday It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs....

Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff Cisco Live Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company's engineers to halve the amount of code they write....

After twenty years, it's Intel outside Apple's macOS operating system will drop support for Intel chips next year, marking the end of a twenty-year relationship....

The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry - we captured backups We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared....

Not just a salve for netadmins - this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant Cisco Live There's light at the end of the tunnel for netadmins tired of juggling multiple management consoles: Cisco announced it's testing a tool called Cloud Control that will drive all its networking, security, and observability tools - and hopefully make the biz more relevant in the AI era....

Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday....

Lone Star State drivers with accident records need to be careful about fraud The Texas Department of Transportation says a compromised user account was used to improperly download nearly 300,000 crash reports, exposing personal data that could be exploited for financial fraud against Lone Star drivers....

Federal court blocks further data sharing, blasts lack of safeguards The US federal government's HR department violated the law and bypassed its own cybersecurity safeguards by giving DOGE affiliates access to personnel records, a federal judge ruled Monday, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt further disclosures....

Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to boffins making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope....

Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy The recently released Xlibre server aims to modernize the X.org X11 server and improve both its security and performance....

The open-source XDR/SIEM provider's servers are in other botnets' crosshairs too Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say - the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed....

Vulpes vulpes has run of five-story park before staffers move in Over a billion dollars, a renowned architect, and more than a decade under construction haven't prevented Google being beaten to its new London digs by unexpected tenants - urban foxes....

Windows Insiders will be first to see if the Windows 10 itch has been scratched The latest changes to Microsoft's Start Menu are being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. However, users in the European Economic Area have a little longer to wait for the promised Android and IOS device integration....

Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."...

Oh, great - now who'll do my thinking for me? Updated If you're having trouble getting ChatGPT to do your work for you this morning, you wouldn't be alone. It appears OpenAI services are experiencing a variety of issues....

Chocolate Factory fixes issue, pays only $5K A researcher has exposed a flaw in Google's authentication systems, opening it to a brute-force attack that left users' mobile numbers up for grabs....

Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success In the past few weeks, both Snowflake and Databricks dipped into their respective acquisition funds and found the resources to buy specialist providers of PostgreSQL database systems....

A milestone in cyberattack recovery - but deliveries will take a while and normal service not yet back UK retailer Marks & Spencer has reinstated online orders for some customers, marking a major milestone in its recovery from a cyberattack in April....