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Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...

AI model makers love to flex their benchmarks scores. But how trustworthy are these numbers? What if the tests themselves are rigged, biased, or just plain meaningless?…

Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic's Claude into public services

Comment  The UK government on Friday said its AI Safety Institute will henceforth be known as its AI Security Institute, a rebranding that attests to a change in regulatory ambition from ensuring AI models get made with wholesome content – to one that primarily punishes AI-abetted crime.…

Roses aren't cheap, violets are dear, now all your access token are belong to Vladimir

Digital thieves – quite possibly Kremlin-linked baddies – have been emailing out bogus Microsoft Teams meeting invites to trick victims in key government and business sectors into handing over their authentication tokens, granting access to emails, cloud data, and other sensitive information.…

Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic

Google may be the latest big tech corporation to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs – but Arm, HPE, and Apple are going against the current direction of travel in their hiring and training policies.…

Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks

HPE has fired back at the US Department of Justice’s objection to its takeover of Juniper Networks, with arguments that include an assertion that blocking the deal will benefit Huawei and therefore have national security implications.…

And it's not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027

The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an "unprecedented" spike in demand, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) – and it's going to be a tough goal to meet. …

The hurdles are higher than you might imagine

FOSDEM 2025  Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it's not as easy as it should be.…

Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say

SAP users have asked for transparent discounting and commercial arrangements following the business app giant's relaunch of Business Suite and extended alliance with Databricks.…

Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand

Demand for electricity from datacenters in Virginia nearly doubled in the second half of 2024, power supplier Dominion Energy said of the region, which is home to "Datacenter Alley".…

High-complexity bug unearthed by infoseccers, as Rapid7 probes exploit further

A high-severity SQL injection bug in the PostgreSQL interactive tool was exploited alongside the zero-day used to break into the US Treasury in December, researchers say.…

The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe

It has been 15 years since the ultimate selfie booth, the Cupola, was attached to the International Space Station (ISS).…

Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line

Vodafone and Three have detailed the exec line-up taking the reins of post-merger UK biz, yet there is no word on when the deal will close, what name it will take, or how many staff face the chop to cut role duplication.…

Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared 'a considerable amount of times'

Two suspected New IRA members were arrested on Tuesday and charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 after they were found in possession of spreadsheets containing details of staff that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly published online.…

Outsourcing is not supposed to involve taking clients' hardware out of their building to your house

On Call  If it's Friday, it's time for another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed column in which you tell tales of crimes against tech support.…

Germany's Federal Cartel Office voices concerns iPhone maker may be breaking competition law

Apple is feeling the heat over its acclaimed iPhone privacy policy after a German regulator's review of iOS tracking consent alleged that the tech giant exempted itself from the rules it enforces on third-party developers.…

'What are customers actually getting from resellers other than massive price markups?' asks Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt, proprietor of data breach lookup site Have I Been Pwned, is likely to ban resellers from the service.…

User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals

In the sizeable global ERP market, SAP's biggest threat is not some other software giant like Oracle. It is its own legacy software supported by other vendors.…

New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek

Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides.…

Talk about court red-handed

Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent legal cases.…

User numbers fall short, triggering investor sell-off

Reddit's first year as a public company delivered solid results by most earnings metrics, but try telling that to Wall Street: Falling short on one key growth target sent shares tumbling despite an otherwise upbeat year-end report.…