Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has begun an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in two stores (Sydenham, London and Oldfield Sainsbury’s Local…
Summary A three-month trial by the UK Department for Business and Trade of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot (Oct–Dec 2024) produced mixed results: users liked the tool but evaluators found no robust…
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government Summary ARIA, the UK’s DARPA-style Advanced Research and Invention Agency, was not asked to identify the 5% savings other departments…
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push Summary SAP will invest €20 billion over the next ten years to expand sovereign cloud infrastructure across Europe, pitching itself as a…
Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support Summary Free support for many Windows 10 editions ends on 14 October 2025. Nexthink’s back-of-the-envelope analysis estimates enterprises…
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again Summary Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine told the US Senate Commerce Committee it is “highly unlikely”…
Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger Summary Atlassian has agreed an all-cash $610m acquisition of New York startup The Browser Company, a deal expected to close in Atlassian’s…
PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future Summary PostgreSQL 18, due for general availability in September 2025, introduces an asynchronous I/O subsystem and UUID v7 support to sharpen analytics…
Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows Security Update fixed CVE-2025-50173, an authentication issue in Windows Installer that could let…
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit Summary SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft performed a demonstrative reboost of the International Space Station, raising the station’s perigee by…
