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)

Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade

(2025/05/16)

Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained



AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge

(2025/05/16)

CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity



Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

(2025/05/16)

We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers



How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

(2025/05/16)

Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims



UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land

(2025/05/16)

DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift



Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'

(2025/05/16)

After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better



Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working

(2025/05/16)

On Call Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that



Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe

(2025/05/16)

Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment



Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

(2025/05/16)

Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitive



Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters

(2025/05/16)

Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show



Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

(2025/05/16)

Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs



Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI

(2025/05/16)

They're smishing, they're vishing



DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M

(2025/05/16)

Entire process took less than five minutes, prosecutors say



NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

(2025/05/16)

Failure could've triggered a small explosion



Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing

(2025/05/15)

AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat



Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

(2025/05/15)

Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you



Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

(2025/05/15)

Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it



Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores

(2025/05/15)

Interview DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soon



Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU

(2025/05/15)

Expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen'



Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore

(2025/05/15)

Sometimes, less information is more



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