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)

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



Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

(2026/04/09)

No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue



Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

(2026/04/09)

Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction



Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

(2026/04/09)

Wash your mouth out with digital soap



Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

(2026/04/09)

Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools



Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

(2026/04/09)

The core product is solid and priced fairly



Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

(2026/04/09)

Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash



UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns

(2026/04/09)

DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension



Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data

(2026/04/09)

As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough



UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown

(2026/04/09)

Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses



Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action

(2026/04/09)

Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings



Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

(2026/04/09)

PWNED Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days



Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter

(2026/04/09)

The time is maybe



Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school

(2026/04/09)

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them!



Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix

(2026/04/09)

South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster



Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era

(2026/04/09)

Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways



Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

(2026/04/08)

interview If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back



DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months

(2026/04/08)

Drawback: it’s radioactive



Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz

(2026/04/08)

Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech



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In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
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