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…
US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant Summary A 67-year-old US man, Tim Andrews, remains alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically…
Google Tells Court ‘Open Web is Already in Rapid Decline’ After Execs Claimed It Was Thriving Summary In a court filing responding to a proposed divestiture, Google told the court…
Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Summary Signal has begun rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups in its Android beta. The opt-in feature lets…
Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack Summary Attackers compromised a maintainer’s account via a phishing campaign and injected malware into multiple npm packages…
All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner Content summary Gartner analysts predict that by 2030 every task in IT will involve AI in some way. They estimate…
