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Weekend Essay: What a blackout taught me about our reliance on tech and the value of cash
The ultimate irony of this past weekend’s blackout is that when the electricity cut out, I was actually trying to be good. I had placed myself on a strict device time-out, shunning the endless scroll of internet drama in favour of sitting at my desk
Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse
Hundreds of practices hit by small health tech firm going into administration
Runtime: GitHub's internal harness comes to Microsoft Foundry
+ Thomas Dohmke's GitHub killer, Akamai does inference, and Monte Carlo is watching your agents.
Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit
Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope
British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many
Other agency errors included an unchecked software bug that led to Terrorism Act detentions
Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
MP presses FCA over whistleblower review after Andriesz death
An MP has challenged the scope and independence of the Financial Conduct Authority's review into its handling of whistleblower Simon Andriesz, according to a letter seen by Money Marketing.
Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
$220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
Kipp acquired by LTVCo-led investor group for US push
Kipp, a Tel Aviv-headquartered fintech platform connecting card issuers and merchants to approve more transactions, has been acquired by an investor group ahead of a push into the US market.
AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute
All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm
From Bedrock to DuckDB to Leo: 7 key takeaways from Amazon's earnings
Jassy: "We’re installing an AI accelerator every 14 seconds"
Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
Apple Pay and Google Pay launch in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has announced the arrival of Apple Pay and Google Pay into its banking system as the central Asian nation looks to open up its financial services.
PE firm CD&R targets buyout of $40bn Global Payments - FT
Global Payments, the payments processor with an enterprise value of around $40 billion, is an acquisition target for private equity firm CD&R, according to the Financial Times.
The Week in Brief – 26 Oct to 30 Oct
’s must-reads: Top 10 stories of the week Executive movements across key technology and platform providers share the spotlight with industry reaction to a measured, cautious Autumn Budget this week.
ECB picks digital euro network service providers
The European Central Bank has selected two network service providers to connect PSPs and national central banks to the digital euro service platform.
Tesco agrees €1.7bn sale of Czech and Slovak businesses
Tesco has agreed to sell its businesses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to international retailer Ahold Delhaize in a deal valued at €1.7bn (£1.5bn).
Sainsbury’s joins Retail Trust’s call for shoppers to respect retail staff
Sainsbury’s has joined the the Retail Trust’s ‘Lets Respect Retail campaign’, which asks shoppers to treat retail workers with kindness and respect.
M&S celebrates 25 year anniversary of Breast Cancer Now partnership
M&S has marked its 25th anniversary of working with Breast Cancer Now by highlighting its post-surgery collection and BraFit service. The partnership began in 2001 and has raised more than £35 million.
Comment: Fashion’s circular economy requires responsible influence
A co-authored piece from Marcel Le Roux, strategic engagement and partnerships lead at IOSH [pictured], and Daniel Hatton, founder of the Commonwealth Fashion Council, on moving the debate beyond whether fashion is recyclable or durable, asking whether the people throughout its…