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Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

OPINION  NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper.…

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."…

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.…

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.…

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.…

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change