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Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency

In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…

And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack

Interview  When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…

Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions

The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh – less than a year after cancelling an identical plan.…

Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth

Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services.…

UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited

Cisco Live  Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores.…

Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them

Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…

Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside

Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…

On your marks, get set... bork!

updated  Microsoft set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…

'BrowserVenom' is pure poison

Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…

FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters

In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…

Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools

Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process.…

Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance

US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight.…

Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic

DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD.…

Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE!

Patch Tuesday  It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs.…

Everything is AWESOME!!!

OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."…

His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more

Obit  Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74.…

The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant

Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…

Customers weren’t sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues

After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees.…

Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale

Cisco Live  Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.…