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Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction

Lagos, Warsaw and Dubai are among the fastest growing cities for colocation services - with metro areas in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions expanding more rapidly than traditional datacenter hotspots.…

Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M

The UK's government department for agriculture and the countryside has upped the potential contract value on offer for cloud and datacenter hosting by more than £100 million.…

Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players

Analysis  The Home Office's war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is starting to look like battlefield failure after more than ten years of skirmishes.…

Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation

An independent taskforce commissioned by the UK government has warned of the nation's "unnecessarily slow, inefficient, and costly" approach to nuclear power (and weaponry).…

Sysadmins, your job is safe

Automating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment.…

Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes

Proponents of increased use of nuclear energy to power datacenters have a new foe: Jellyfish.…

Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services

IBM Cloud experienced a Severity One outage on Monday that left customers unable to access resources.…

70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets

Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs are a pair of itty-bitty workstation cards that aim to deliver the highest performance possible for professional visualization and local AI workloads within a 70-watt energy diet.…

Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more

The US Government's process for certifying cloud services safe for official use has long been slow, but that's no longer the case. Approvals so far this fiscal year are more than double the total for all of FY 2024.…

And shave 15% of the top no doubt.

Nerfed versions of Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs could soon join its H20 on the list of AI accelerators approved for sale in China.…

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit

Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.…

Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor.…

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb

Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.…

He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%

Many are unhappy about Microsoft's Windows 10 retirement plans, but a California man appears to be angrier than most. He's sued Redmond over the matter, and is demanding continued free Win 10 updates until the OS's popularity wanes. …

The alleged perpetrators remain at large

The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.…

The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast

Black Hat/DEF CON  At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer.…

But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge

Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations.…

By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money

DEF CON  While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.…

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!

From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…