AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud
The great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can't secure enough on-prem compute themselves.…
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI
The Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has published research showing that US workers reckon Microsoft is using its productivity tools to lock their employers into the company's AI services.…
SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy
An influential SAP user group has criticized the vendor's API policy update, saying it lacks clarity and potentially prevents users from starting new projects and innovating on their SAP platforms.…
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans.…
Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes
Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users.…
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.…
Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005
Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.…
What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia
Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.…
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day
Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.…
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
London cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers.…
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.…
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.…
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon
Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…
GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash
Wiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of a high-severity flaw in GitHub's git infrastructure that handed remote attackers full read/write access to private GitHub repositories using a single command.…
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm
Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…
