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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs - Opinion - Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently

3 hours ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it - Who, Me? Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

3 hours ago

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude -- Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints

3 hours ago

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs - Opinion - Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently - OSes - 14 Apr 2026 - | 77

8 minutes ago

France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead - Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware - Public Sector - 13 Apr 2026 - | 119

8 minutes ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI - Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

18 days ago

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints -- Dev reports suggest long sessions now burn through usage much faster

20 hours ago

Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting -- Science

41 minutes ago

Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow - Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP - Networks - 14 Apr 2026 - |

57 minutes ago

No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit -- Honey, the skids are fighting again -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

More bark than bite? NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats -- Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage -- Science

4 hours ago

IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz -- Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases -- Legal

5 hours ago

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout -- Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US -- Personal Tech

6 hours ago

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder -- 20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future -- Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s -- Systems

7 hours ago

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket -- Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 -- Software

8 hours ago

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program -- Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years -- Public Sector

8 hours ago

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now - Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold - Systems - 14 Apr 2026 - |

9 hours ago

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - Updated - To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want

4 days ago

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered -- Science

9 hours ago

Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships -- Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA -- AI + ML

41 minutes ago

Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum - Patches - 13 Apr 2026 - | 6

2 hours ago

Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet -- What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? -- Devops

19 hours ago

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude -- Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough -- 'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us -- SaaS

20 hours ago

Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets -- Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate -- Cyber-crime

20 hours ago

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller -- GG noob, who cleared you to land? -- Public Sector

23 hours ago

WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support -- Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals -- Databases

22 hours ago

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints -- Dev reports suggest long sessions now burn through usage much faster -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try -- AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools' -- OSes

1 day ago

Nvidia Brings The Power Of Open Source AI Models To Quantum Computing

2 hours ago

Building The Imperfect Beast

22 hours ago

For Enterprises, GPUs Need Virtualization As Much As CPUs Ever Did

3 days ago

CoreWeave Takes As Much Financial Engineering As It Does Datacenter Design

4 days ago

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - On Call - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

1 day ago

Booking.com warns reservation data may have checked out with intruders -- Travel giant says names, contact details, dates, and hotel messages potentially exposed -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program -- Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes -- OSes

1 day ago

Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill -- Department putting systems in place to manage 'restrictive licensing practices' -- Public Sector

1 day ago

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies -- MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad -- Edge + IoT

1 day ago

Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse -- Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machines -- OSes

1 day ago

Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack -- Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwords -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data -- ShinyHunters claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

22 hours ago

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework

22 hours ago

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

22 hours ago

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

11 days ago

Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era - Cut through the noise and understand the real risks, responsibilities, and responses shaping enterprise AI today. Webinar Promo

4 days ago

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future -- Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round - Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement - Personal Tech - 13 Apr 2026 - | 10

41 minutes ago

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession -- Hallucinations don't fly in a court of law -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it -- Who, Me? -- Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible -- Storage

1 day ago

China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more! -- AI + ML

1 day ago

How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy - Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer - Sponsored Post

5 days ago

Commvault announces trio of AI tools for data prep, agent oversight, resilience

2 hours ago

ExaGrid's regular repeated record breaking ability

2 hours ago

Sandook delivers pooled SSD performance-boosting management

23 hours ago

Panzura has a new CEO

1 day ago

Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers -- Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs -- OSes

9 hours ago

Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world -- Kettle -- Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode -- Security

1 day ago

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable -- AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight -- FEATURE -- Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user -- Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk -- Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents -- SaaS

2 days ago

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise -- Time to start dropping SBOMs -- Security

2 days ago

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard' -- Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts -- Security

3 days ago

Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access -- With access to great data comes great responsibility -- SaaS

3 days ago

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla -- Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh -- Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads -- Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers -- Security

4 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

2 months ago

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint -- Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working -- Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Opinion - Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities - Security - 10 Apr 2026 - | 24

21 hours ago

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers -- Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime -- Security

4 days ago

BOFH - : If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them - Episode 7 - How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data? BOFH - 10 Apr 2026 - | 87

41 minutes ago

Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch -- Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry -- Databases

4 days ago

Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up -- Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming -- Public Sector

4 days ago

How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era - Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage - Webinar Promo

6 days ago

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity -- Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania -- Systems

4 days ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access -- Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they'll wake up slowly -- Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find -- Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch -- Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs - Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel - PaaS + IaaS - 09 Apr 2026 - |

4 days ago

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case -- Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate -- C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home -- CxO

4 days ago

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them -- Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered -- AI + ML

4 days ago

'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree -- Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement -- FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller - ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize - Software - 09 Apr 2026 - |

4 days ago