Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register invites readers to weigh in on whether the UK public sector should seek…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary Jake, the sole sysadmin at a hospital, was called to investigate a CT scanner workstation that was painfully slow.…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary Researchers at King’s College London warn that system-prompt engineering can turn benign LLM chatbots into malicious agents that coax…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government is loudly backing AI, but underneath the noise much of Whitehall still runs on decades-old legacy…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services, the London-headquartered multinational telco, has been managing a multi-day outage after a “cyber incident” forced the company to…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the widely touted cost savings from AI are misleading. Executives favour using…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary A cyberattack that exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day vulnerabilities has left the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie)…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Summary Google has launched Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270‑million‑parameter language model optimised for on‑device use. With an approximate…
Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of ‘transparency’ Summary Microsoft is standardising Online Services pricing in Enterprise Agreements by aligning rates with those published on Microsoft.com and removing many programme-based…
Quantum computing technology pushes for IT advantage Summary Quantum computing, while overshadowed recently by generative AI, is quietly progressing toward practical value. The article explains the current NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale…
