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Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.…

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Antiques Code Show  Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Opinion  It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…

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