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Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is

The UK's telecoms regulator has released an overhauled tool comparing mobile coverage and performance across the country, claiming this will help the millions of Brits missing out on the best local network.…

Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers

Updated  Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models.…

But like cloud computing and digital transformation, this may be a buzzword they can't ignore forever

HPE Discover 2025  HPE envisions a future where customer systems are filled with its agentic AI products, but reactions from the HPE Discover show floor in Las Vegas this week suggest the company has a way to go to convince folks to buy in.…

The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022

Updated  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing its board elections suspended voting, or face disciplinary action.…

Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds

Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).…

Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’

Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond

Comment  A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers.…

At least the BSOD acronym will still work

The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI).…

Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums

The notorious data thief known as IntelBroker allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to more than 40 victims worldwide and stole their data, costing them at least $25 million in damages, according to newly unsealed court documents that also name IntelBroker as 25-year-old British national Kai West.…

837 megawatt reactor now expected in 2027, energy CEO says

A revamped Three Mile Island nuclear plant could be fueling Microsoft's AI datacenters sooner than first thought, according to Constellation Energy executives.…

A 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren’t patches to dwell on

Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems.…

22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs

The free graphics format that people actually know how to pronounce has been updated.…

The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers

Analysis  In 2013, Amazon Web Services announced a new C3 instance type and made vague references to what it described as "enhanced networking" enabled by an Intel Virtual Function interface.…

You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns

Power required by AI datacenters in the US may be more than 30 times greater in a decade, with 5 GW facilities already in the pipeline..…

Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor

NASA's NICER X-ray telescope is pausing operations just weeks after the US space agency boasted that a January repair and reconfiguration had improved its daytime measurements.…

Business data is fragmented and change management is hard

Interview  Adoption of generative AI for enterprise customers isn't taking off in the manner many in the industry expected – and there are major obstacles in the way, according to Rania Succar, recently appointed CEO at Kaseya.…

Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen

A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.…

Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'

Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland's decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores "chilling" – the UK supermarket chain says it's deploying the cameras to cut down on crime.…

Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities

The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…

Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS

OpenDylan is a Lisp without all the parentheses – just as John McCarthy originally intended for LISP-2.…