Clock is ticking, in more ways than one

Twenty-nine former IBM employees who were denied the opportunity to sue the IT giant for age discrimination by arbitration agreements have petitioned the US Supreme Court to let them bring their claims to court.…

Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust

After struggling for months, NASA has finally cracked open the canister storing a dirt sample scooped off the surface of an asteroid.…

Election officials, judges, politicians, and gamers are in swatters' crosshairs

CISA Director Jen Easterly has confirmed she was the subject of a swatting attempt on December 30 after a bogus report of a shooting at her home.…

Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that's the idea anyway...

Europe's first exascale supercomputer will be delivered as a modular datacenter consisting of container units intended to allow for easier updates or replacement of single modules in future. An Early Access Program has also opened for potential applications for the upcoming system.…

Claims FCC's justification for ditching Starlink 'utterly false'

Elon Musk has reacted angrily to the Biden administration pledging millions of dollars to bolster high-speed internet access.…

Gotta fund that war somehow, eh, Vlad?

Apple has paid a fine of ₽1.2 billion ($13.5 million) to the Russian government after Moscow decided the company violated its antitrust laws by preventing iOS users from going outside the App Store for in-app purchases (IAP).…

More than 5,000 victims claimed over a 3-year period but filing reckons accused didn't even use a VPN

A Baltimore man faces a potential maximum 20-year prison sentence after being charged for his alleged role in running an online service that sold personal data which was later used for financial fraud.…

Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors

Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels.…

Creator of the Network Time Protocol that holds the internet together

Obituary  Professor David L Mills, one of the original wizards who built the internet, has died at the age of 85, leaving a remarkable technological legacy.…

Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red

Oracle has launched its OCI Generative AI service and introduced new betas to help customers build machine learning models from their own data. All of this as it tries to ensure the LLM bandwagon does not carry data from its systems to other cloud providers.…

Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference

Just over a week after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Pro and rolled the service out to more customers, users are complaining about performance, and the platform is being met with a shrug by administrators.…

Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade... or open wallets

Used and refurbished smartphones sales continue to expand by near-double digits but that rate is slowing as elongated refresh cycles for brand new handsets means fewer secondhand devices are becoming available.…

French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal

The French privacy watchdog, National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), has fined Amazon France Logistique €32 million ($34.8 million) over a system for monitoring staff activity and performance.…

Comes mere months after Western intelligence agencies warned of attacks on water providers

Southern Water confirmed this morning that criminals broke into its IT systems, making off with a "limited amount of data."…

Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit

Supermarket chain Asda has extended its deal with Walmart, the US retail giant that once owned the UK business, to support backend ERP systems after a project to replace them hit delays.…

How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces?

The UK Ministry of Defence's efforts to better manage its £11.8 billion ($15 billion) of inventory hinges, in no small part, on a sweeping digital transformation program that involves modernizing legacy tech systems, but the department's track record is worrying MPs.…

So this is the AI revolution

We know that "AI" is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn't mean you should.…

16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too

Comment  What is an AI PC? What is its killer app? Both are open questions , although we do know that running AI models locally – not over the network like when you're playing with ChatGPT – requires significant grunt on your desk or lap.…

Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law

Meta has been accused of automatically enrolling Europe-based users of its Facebook social network into the ad supported version of the service if they've not yet chosen between the free and paid subscription options, an action which would violates EU rules.…

Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill

Amazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on its Marketplace.…