Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary Chinese web giant Tencent told investors on its Q2 earnings…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Summary Foxconn’s Q2 results reveal a major business shift: its Cloud and Networking Products division, driven by…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register reports on a public debate and reader poll prompted by the UK government’s…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary Jake, the sole sysadmin at a hospital, was called to investigate a sluggish CT scanner workstation. The workstation struggled…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A team from King’s College London presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that off-the-shelf large language…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Key Points • Whitehall is pushing AI hard, but a significant portion of central government systems remain legacy — 28%…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services, a London-headquartered multinational telco, says a “cyber incident” that began on 12 August forced it to take internal…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Key Points • Executives see AI as a way to cut headcount and boost margins, but that assumes…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) is still grappling with the aftermath of a cyberattack first…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Summary Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270-million-parameter model optimised for on-device use. It requires roughly 550MB…
