UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
The UK's financial regulator is signing a deal worth up to £12.3 million ($15.9 million) with tech services biz Cognizant to make "enhancements" to a Workday HR and finance system it implemented several years ago.…
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.…
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it
Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.…
Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users
Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.…
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill
The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'
Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?…
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount
The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison
A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.…
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
Opinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?…
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.…
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’
Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.…
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.…
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.…
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses
Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.…
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw
Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.…
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).…
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices.…
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims
A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday
Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.…
