Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs (2025/08/12) Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction
Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services (2025/08/12) Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M
The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption (2025/08/12) Analysis Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' (2025/08/12) Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation
Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show (2025/08/12) Sysadmins, your job is safe
News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline' (2025/08/12) Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes
IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs (2025/08/12) Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services
Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost (2025/08/12) 70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets
Fed cloud contracts up 2x this year after red tape slashing (2025/08/11) Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more
Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China (2025/08/11) And shave 15% of the top no doubt.
Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks (2025/08/11) A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand (2025/08/11) Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft (2025/08/11) He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear (2025/08/11) Black Hat/DEF CON The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation (2025/08/11) But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge
Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 (2025/08/11) Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update
Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years (2025/08/11) A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!
'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman (2025/08/11) Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down (2025/08/11) Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors