Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it
Interview Enterprise plans for the end of Windows 10 should already be well underway, but some sectors are lagging, and there are other potential time bombs for administrators to worry about, according to asset management outfit Lansweeper.…
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…
VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks
VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…
YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to end the case brought by US president Donald Trump, who alleged the vid-streamer had infringed his freedom of speech.…
California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car
Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…
Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to force SAP support as sanctions bite
An Indian court has refused urgent relief to an SAP customer after the vendor withheld support due to EU sanctions introduced in the summer.…
OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel
Opinion The OpenAI and Nvidia $100 billion partnership sure sounds impressive. $100 billion isn't chicken feed, even as more and more tech companies cross the trillion-dollar mark. But what does it really mean?…
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.…
ChatGPT wants teens to agree to let their parents spy on them
OpenAI says it is introducing parental controls to ChatGPT that will help improve the safety of teenagers using its AI chatbot. The only catch? Teens will have to allow their parents to connect to their accounts before the controls can take effect.…
Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst
As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters required, according to KeyBanc's projections.…
Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers
ai-pocalypse Profound is a startup that promises to help companies understand how they appear in AI responses to customer queries. But one expert in the field thinks the AI analytics startup has been sucking up information on users' AI conversations without proper consent.…
Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.…
Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer
Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…
FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again
After years of relying on the FAA to certify its jets as airworthy, Boeing is finally going to be allowed to do so itself – sometimes. …
Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources are in short supply.…
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'
The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.…
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink
Momentum is gathering behind calls for a Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen Europe's competitiveness in the semiconductor sector amid growing geopolitical uncertainty over global markets and supply chains.…
Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature Windows 3.1 rather than a diminutive Windows 95 to install the full-fat version of the latter.…
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
The UK government is stepping in with financial support for Jaguar Land Rover, providing it with a hefty loan as it continues to battle the fallout from a cyberattack.…
