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Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress

Italian rocket company Avio has signed a €40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers.…

Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair

Exclusive  Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account.…

Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining

Lloyds Banking Group — the £18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank — has promised that it will continue to use “digitization” to power a program of branch closures.…

It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?

Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software.…

Discovers debt it didn’t fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo

New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation.…

Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt

Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising.…

And it’s not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum’s lines

A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline.…

Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account

Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.…

Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage

Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks — and the consequences are severe, with students' coursework being permanently lost in some cases.…

Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop

A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.…

Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond

Exclusive  The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…

‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a new variety of malware.…

Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…

Other studies are finding the same thing

Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…

Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

Updated  The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…

Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…

Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave

With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…

Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow

Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…