Microsoft veteran’s worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS Summary Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer admits the worst bug he ever shipped lived in Windows Pinball. While porting…
Legacy tech blunts UK top cops’ fight against serious crime, inspectors find Summary The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is hampered by ageing IT, unclear strategy and technical debt, according…
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments Summary The Darwin Awards concept has been extended to highlight spectacular AI deployment failures. Nominations for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards…
Anthropic’s Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake Summary Anthropic added automated security reviews to Claude Code that scan code…
Summary Finnish phone maker HMD Global has launched a new business unit, HMD Secure, aimed at governments and security-critical organisations. Its first product is the Android-based HMD Ivalo XE, billed…
UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age Summary The UK Home Office has issued a tender offering £1.3 million for an algorithm capable of predicting…
SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal Summary EchoStar has agreed to sell its AWS‑4 and H‑block spectrum licences to SpaceX for $17 billion (USD),…
Atlassian’s move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more Summary Atlassian is retiring its datacentre products (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo) in favour of Atlassian Cloud, with a partial exception…
Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder’s biz for nearly $20B Summary Microsoft has agreed a multi‑year contract with Netherlands‑based Nebius Group (formerly Yandex N.V.) to buy dedicated GPU…
What is OCR (optical character recognition)? Summary OCR (optical character recognition) is technology that converts printed or handwritten text in digital images of physical documents into machine-readable text. Typical OCR…
