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)

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)

IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I



Nutanix takes another swipe at VMware with sovereign cloud push

(2025/12/15)

On-prem control planes, dark-site upgrades, and multicloud policies target regulated deployments



Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

(2025/12/15)

Company vacuumed up by its own manufacturer



Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M

(2025/12/15)

Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul



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