Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract Summary The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed a OneGov deal with Microsoft that could save the federal government…
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up Summary US District Judge Amit Mehta — who earlier found Google guilty of monopolising…
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply Summary UK retailer Tesco has filed a lawsuit against Broadcom (owner of VMware) and named reseller Computacenter…
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months Summary The GNOME Foundation’s executive director, Steven Deobald, has departed less than four months after taking the post. The Foundation’s board described…
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Summary The Home Office has raised the maximum expected value of its Data Services & Analytics…
Summary A RAID failure took the Matrix.org public homeserver offline on 2 September 2025. The secondary database lost its filesystem at 11:17 UTC, the primary then failed at 17:26 UTC,…
EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire Summary The European Union General Court (EGC) has dismissed a 2023 annulment action brought by French lawmaker Philippe…
Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC’s China chip-building effort Summary The US Commerce Department has revoked TSMC’s Verified End-User (VEU) status for its Nanjing operation, effective 31 December 2025. The move…
Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA – with more cuts looming Summary Oracle has filed WARN notices showing it will eliminate 101 jobs in Seattle…
IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead Summary IBM Cloud is changing its free Basic Support tier to a self-service model from January 2026.…
