BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them (2026/04/10) Episode 7 How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch (2026/04/10) Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry
Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up (2026/04/10) Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job (2026/04/10) On Call The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity (2026/04/10) Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access (2026/04/10) Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly (2026/04/10) Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise
Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find (2026/04/10) Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch (2026/04/09) Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that
Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs (2026/04/09) Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel
Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case (2026/04/09) Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims
World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate (2026/04/09) C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home
AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them (2026/04/09) Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered
'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree (2026/04/09) Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in
Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement (2026/04/09) FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller (2026/04/09) ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge (2026/04/09) Exclusive Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything
Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare (2026/04/09) UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape (2026/04/09) Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets (2026/04/09) Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload