Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing (2025/01/21) Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it
UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey (2025/01/21) Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation
Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores (2025/01/21) Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'
AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads (2025/01/21) Now if only the councils could afford to fill them
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns (2025/01/21) And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon
TSMC pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan (2025/01/21) Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service (2025/01/21) Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale (2025/01/21) Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy
Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs (2025/01/21) Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late (2025/01/20) Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise (2025/01/20) Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy (2025/01/20) Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes (2025/01/20) Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment'
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap (2025/01/20) Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish (2025/01/20) Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors (2025/01/20) Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints (2025/01/20) Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? (2025/01/20) Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior (2025/01/20) 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs