ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

(2025/12/16)

New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'



UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months

(2025/12/16)

Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors



Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

(2025/12/16)

Theologians give scriptural OK to online faith communities



Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access

(2025/12/16)

Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls



No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

(2025/12/16)

Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked



Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters

(2025/12/16)

EV sales didn’t accelerate as hoped, so it will repurpose idling factories



Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us

(2025/12/16)

Palantir's former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform



Amazon security boss blames Russia's GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks

(2025/12/16)

'Sustained focus on Western critical infrastructure'



Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores

(2025/12/15)

Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week



IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

(2025/12/15)

Framework looks great for scenarios where a 62 percent completion rate is acceptable



ServiceNow mulls buying Armis to gain full visibility into the IT stack

(2025/12/15)

If the buy happens, the big question is will they integrate the codebase or keep it separate?



US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

(2025/12/15)

Washington rediscovers that modern IT doesn’t run itself



Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track

(2025/12/15)

And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal



New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

(2025/12/15)

hands on Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs



Bot invasion increases with Google scraping the way, Cloudflare says

(2025/12/15)

Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly half of requests



China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns

(2025/12/15)

Who hasn't exploited this max-severity flaw?



Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

(2025/12/15)

Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift



Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in

(2025/12/15)

Flat-rate deals may sting now, but vendor expects payback over decades



GAO report details faltering Veteran’s Administration records upgrade program

(2025/12/15)

Watchdog highlights slate of unmet priorities



Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

(2025/12/15)

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