NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash
Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time
Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking
Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K
Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health
£330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis
Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’
Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets
Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity
Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits
Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway
Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI
Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff
1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials
13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool
All driller, no filler
We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to
A new coat of paint
DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year
Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown
Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops
MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes
AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned
Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help
Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested
Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
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