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Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’

IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources.…

One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax

UPDATED  Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth.…

Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look

Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…

Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour

IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use.…

Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres

What did you do on Saturday? We ask because the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some of it playing a waltz that the European Space Agency (ESA) transmitted in the general direction of the Voyager 1 probe.…

A big win for North Dakota

CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue.…

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them

Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.…

Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone?

A group of Democratic senators has urged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which had been investigating how China's Salt Typhoon hacked US government and telecommunications networks.…

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws

Elon Musk's smog-belching Colossus AI datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, is once again catching heat, this time from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which urges local authorities to halt operations and fine the startup for what it sees as a "clear" violation of the Clean Air Act.…

'It's a high-stakes intelligence war,' analyst explains

exclusive  A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.…

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles

Snowflake's ability to grow in the market for larger enterprise customers is hampered by the renewal cycle for older, on-prem data warehouse and analytics tech.…

Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'

A senior Salesforce exec says users need to be flexible about AI pricing models while vendors determine which one works best.…

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them

Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.…

White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop

More details are emerging about potential NASA budget cuts alongside the abrupt withdrawal of the nomination of Jared Isaacman as the agency's new administrator.…

29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache

Network engineers can take solace from the completed merger of Three and Vodafone announced today, as the difficult technical work now starts to unify their separate networks over the next several years.…

Disclosure at MainStreet Bancshares comes as American finance orgs beg for looser reporting requirements

Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider.…

Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will

Stumbling Euro tech giant Atos looks set to finally sell its Advanced Computing assets to the French state.…

Fancy getting rolling with something Qt and Italian?

OpenMamba is an independent Italian distribution which uses Fedora's packaging tools and offers a choice of KDE Plasma or LXQt.…

The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?

Opinion  Congratulations! As CEO of a giant tech company, head of a sovereign wealth fund, or a VC bored with megayacht leapfrog, you have billions of dollars of other people's cash to spend. You want to make a difference. You want to be a success.…

So much for cushy public sector roles – a non-IT manager at McDonalds makes more

How much is an IT manager worth?  Well, if you're working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about £60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised.…