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Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022

An Oracle-based ERP system used by Europe's largest local authority is still not "safe and compliant" two-and-a-half years after it went live and has "effectively crippled the council's ability to manage and report on finances," according to external auditors.…

Development dashboard destined for ditching

Microsoft is killing off its unloved Dev Home control center after the app spent less than two years in preview.…

But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends?

Column  When moving house a few months back I found several heavy plastic tubs that, upon inspection, I saw contained my life's work in print. They were full of articles, magazines, books and book chapters.…

From AI startup CISO to running federal IT - sure, why not?

The US has a new federal chief information officer who, based on his resume, has no prior experience as a CIO but is now tasked with overseeing IT operations and strategy for the entire federal government.…

It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more

Many recent Apple laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones powered by Cupertino's homegrown Silicon processors can be exploited to reveal email content, browsing behavior, and other sensitive data through two newly identified side-channel attacks on Chrome and Safari.…

Nvidia says its chips are still needed, OpenAI says it'll keep buying them en masse, but shares are still down

US tech shares, rattled yesterday by the release of a supposedly more efficient AI model by Chinese outfit DeepSeek, appear to have staunched the bleeding, but not recovered. …

Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe

Updated  The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release of its CUDA runtime this month.…

Big-game hunting to the extreme

Hellcat, the ransomware crew that infected Schneider Electric and demanded $125,000 in baguettes, has aggressively targeted government, education, energy, and other critical industries since it emerged around mid-2024.…

We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course

Feature  Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they've also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating ever larger quantities of accelerators to keep up.…

Pay no attention to the DeepSeek behind the headlines

OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Gov, a variant of the Enterprise version of the product specifically tailored for use by the US government.…

With all the AI hype swirling around, you'd think someone would've cracked this one already

Tracking down and preventing money laundering is a slow, time-consuming, manual procedure. DARPA is hoping it can provide some relief for exhausted analysts by automating the process. …

Brit monopoly plod files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting smaller rivals + customers

The UK's market regulator says "competition is not working as well as it could" in the local cloud services sector, and it plans to look harder at what AWS and Microsoft are doing – while giving Google a pass – in its Cloud Services Investigation.…

But what the heck should it do?

Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?…

Qualifying orgs may get 2033 extension, just don’t call it a U-turn

SAP has confirmed that it will extend support for legacy systems beyond its previously stated deadlines for customers who have already signed up for a specific ERP cloud transition deal.…

In Redmond, no one can hear the audiophiles scream

The list of known issues in the Windows January 14 update continues to grow with USB audio device users the latest to be hit.…

Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right?

IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent) were forced to contain efforts by criminals to breach their defenses in the past year.…

Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers

Opinion  With Broadcom putting the bite on VMware customers with more abandon than Dracula in a blood bank, one has to wonder. Why hang around? Why better bled than fled?…

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year later.…

Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead

It's a line Brits love to quote: "You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now, behave yourself." Michael Caine's iconic dialogue as the Get Carter protagonist sums up how tech companies see the government: big, in bad shape, and here to do what they say.…

An elder returns, for those still seeking it

Enlightenment is one of the granddaddies of Linux desktops, and after a couple of years, the project has a shiny new release.…