DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government's digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister's salary.…
As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough Capita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an "issue" briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers.…
Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses The British government is spending £15 million over the next three years to improve crime mapping in England and Wales, partly to allow more targeted policing of knife crime.…
Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings The Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an appeals phase this month, attracting the attention of a multibillion-pound class action against the Windows giant.…
Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as si...
The time is maybe Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it's both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence for decryption.…
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them! Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is singing a different tune. …
South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster Western Union has commenced a migration from VMware to Nutanix after deciding it didn’t want to do business with Broadcom.…
Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications.…
If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia,...
Drawback: it’s radioactive Forget recharging or swapping out disposable AAs every day. What if you could power energy-hungry devices for months or even years at a time from a single, reasonably-sized battery? A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality f...
Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep tech As businesses drink the agentic AI Kool-Aid and go looking for productivity enhancements, IT professionals can deliver by rebranding their existing automations as “zero-...
China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPUs may end up shipping later and in smaller volumes than anticipated due to supply chain challenges, TrendForce warned on Wednesday.…
BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats BAE Systems has successfully tested a laser-guided rocket system with a Typhoon fighter jet from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) as a potential anti-drone weapon. It follows earlier trials in the US with the F-15E Strike E...
Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform A Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges likely left more than a thousand faculty and staff with payroll errors.…
MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery To supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by developing a "science of AI communication" that will help the models work together to come up with...
Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library Microsoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be supported.…
Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers Supermicro has launched an independent investigation after three people associated with the company were charged with violating US export restrictions on China.…
To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want Updated Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to "minimize disruption" for existing customers by dangling a 20 percent discount for new models...
Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn't Bork!Bork!Bork! You might say this bork was bread to fail, but at least it involves a version of Windows that most people actually like.…