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Founder shares 4K Altair BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.…

It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row

As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…

Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs

MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50 TOPS.…

To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features

Comment  The latest version of Zorin OS, a popular Windows-macOS-like Ubuntu Linux remix, looks good, but there's one change that causes this vulture some concern.…

Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability

The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise as a result of US President Donald Trump's trade policies, at least in the short term, as uncertainty grips the supply chain.…

Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure

Comment  Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…

Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind

A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.…

Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment

The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…

Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning

Opinion  Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…

Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind

Opinion  Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, the institute that bears his name makes it clear who it stands with when it comes to using copyrighted material to fuel the expansion of machine learning into every human domain.…

The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions

The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.…

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show

Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…

CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board

Updated  Raspberry Pi hasn't felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge over rivals, analysts reckon.…

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?

Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.…

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune

Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…

Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding

Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…

Double-oh-sh...

The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.…

Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027

Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…

Tip-lipped for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivaled advocate' for the site

Obit  Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility in England during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.…

Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop

Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…