Gitpod reinvents itself as Ona in pivot to AI agent platform (2025/09/03) From cloud IDEs to autonomous assistants, company says future is agentic
Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited (2025/09/03) New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown (2025/09/03) Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up
Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot (2025/09/03) The beatings will continue until usage improves
FreeBSD Project isn't ready to let AI commit code just yet (2025/09/03) But it's OK to use it for docs and translations
Investors throw another $13B on the Anthropic cash bonfire (2025/09/03) Opinion Claude maker hits $183B valuation as bubble fears grow
'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes (2025/09/03) Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI?
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months (2025/09/03) Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs (2025/09/03) Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply (2025/09/03) Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment (2025/09/03) ‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’
India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs (2025/09/03) It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up (2025/09/03) Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI
How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach (2025/09/02) Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight (2025/09/02) Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative
Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed (2025/09/02) Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware
Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations (2025/09/02) A host of plugins also make it a better business tool
Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed (2025/09/02) Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise
Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract (2025/09/02) Free Copilot for any agency who actually wants it
Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI (2025/09/02) Updated Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger