Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco’s AI sales by a cool billion bucks Summary Cisco reported Q4 and full‑year FY2025 results showing that AI infrastructure sales to webscale customers surged: AI orders…
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns Summary Australia will fund two datacentres in Vanuatu as part of a new security pact, the “Nakamal Agreement”. The deal…
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops – even after thin client costs Summary Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) finds that hosted desktops are frequently cheaper to…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version Summary Redis 8.2 is now generally available and returns to a recognised free/open-source licence (AGPL). The release emphasises performance and…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one Summary The Linux kernel is extraordinary: vast in scope, stable, and widely deployed from microcontrollers to…
Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack Summary UK-based Stock in the Channel (STIC) took its website offline after a ransomware group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third‑party…
DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase Summary DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) programme is moving from phase one into phase two after a quiet $11.3m contract…
Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Summary DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the R1 model, reportedly tried to train its next-generation R2 on Huawei’s homegrown Ascend…
Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it Summary Researchers report that at least a dozen ransomware groups are deploying kernel-level “EDR killers” to neutralise…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary A lone hospital sysadmin discovered that a CT scanner and its viewing workstation, which sat only three metres apart,…
