So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc. Summary The Crown Commercial Service has awarded a four-year framework giving public sector organisations access to…
UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle Summary Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer carried out a dramatic cabinet reshuffle over the weekend that reshapes responsibility for UK tech…
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban Summary The long-running legal battle between UK reseller ValueLicensing and Microsoft returns to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. ValueLicensing…
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…
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…
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…
Linus Torvalds Expresses Frustration With ‘Garbage’ Link Tags In Git Commits Summary Linus Torvalds posted on the Linux kernel mailing list to complain about the proliferation of “Link:” tags in…
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…
Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts Content summary Microsoft says Azure experienced disruptions and higher latency after a series of undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea…
A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces Summary NASA has selected four research volunteers to take part in a 378-day Mars surface simulation that will…
