NHS staff resist using Palantir software (2026/04/03) Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much
When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot (2026/04/03) Bork!Bork!Bork! This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled (2026/04/03) On Call Y2k Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine
AI models will deceive you to save their own kind (2026/04/03) Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior
Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 (2026/04/02) Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images (2026/04/02) About that partnership...
US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks (2026/04/02) Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems
They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead (2026/04/02) Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important (2026/04/02) Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong
IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI (2026/04/02) Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash (2026/04/02) Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' (2026/04/02) In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft
Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle (2026/04/02) The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services
Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript (2026/04/02) Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed (2026/04/02) Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen
Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons (2026/04/02) Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings
AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer (2026/04/02) We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo (2026/04/02) And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support (2026/04/02) And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom (2026/04/02) Pwned Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable