Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not
Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not Summary IBM is moving a large chunk of Red Hat’s general & administrative (G&A) staff…
PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays
PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays Summary The US federal court document system PACER has run into trouble after beginning a mandatory multifactor authentication (MFA)…
French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF
French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF Summary Data4 has signed a 12-year Nuclear Production Allocation Contract (CAPN) with EDF to secure 40 MW of nuclear-generated power from…
Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical’s servers take weekend off
Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical’s servers take weekend off Summary Canonical reported short-lived outages to security.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com on 5 and 7 September that lasted around 36 minutes. Although…
Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too
Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too Summary Perplexity has unveiled Enterprise Pro for Government, a public-sector edition of its AI search product, and says…
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot … in SQL Server Management Studio
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot … in SQL Server Management Studio Summary Microsoft has removed the Copilot preview from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 1 as it prepares…
What is autonomic computing?
What is autonomic computing? Summary Autonomic computing describes systems that manage themselves with minimal human intervention, modelled on the human autonomic nervous system. Introduced by IBM in 2001, the concept…
New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support
New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support Summary Firefox Nightly now lists Microsoft Copilot among its sidebar chatbot options, joining ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral and others.…
AI Tool Usage ‘Correlates Negatively’ With Performance in CS Class, Estonian Study Finds
AI Tool Usage ‘Correlates Negatively’ With Performance in CS Class, Estonian Study Finds Summary A recent study at the University of Tartu surveyed 231 students in an object-oriented programming course…
Scientists Discuss Next Steps to Prevent Dangerous ‘Mirror Life’ Research
Scientists Discuss Next Steps to Prevent Dangerous ‘Mirror Life’ Research Summary Researchers and biosecurity experts have convened after a team working on so-called “mirror life” — organisms built from mirror-image…