Business & Tech

A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's

AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances

Weekend Essay: Why advisers should be talking to clients about prenups

For some, the idea of a prenup is unromantic and conjures images of disaster ahead for the marriage. For others, it is a pragmatic necessity to protect their assets. Recently, prenups made headlines following the high-profile marriage of megastars Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI

Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge

Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats

The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit

The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads

Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up

The real mistake here was probably sending someone so young to do the job

Debian votes to let contributors code with AI

South Korea's Shinhan signs for Visa stablecoin platform

South Korean conglomerate Shinhan Financial Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Visa to use the American firm's new stablecoin platform and explore AI-based payment models.

Retailers warn packaging charges have doubled as BRC calls for PRN reform

Retailers are facing a more than £100m increase in packaging costs this year after the average price of plastic Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs) more than doubled, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Runtime: The Tau of Glean

+ Nvidia starts to Groq inference, and the quote of the week.

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems

Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle

LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI

It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer

Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it

Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut

Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range

At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads

Pentagon's Anthropic ban deemed "illegal and baseless"

US judge signs with AI lab after it alleged a free speech violation.

PayPal shares sink on reported collapse of Stripe-Advent takeover deal

Shares in PayPal plummeted more than 13% on Friday on reports that Stripe and Advent International have pulled out of their takeover bid for the payments giant.

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs

German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters

How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?

AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?

Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met

US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division

SK Hynix building first US AI memory hub

Chip company follows Micron in building major production and research sites in the country.

Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff

Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November

Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have

Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat

Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview

Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates

Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming

Frasers finance boss calls RRP rules ‘unreasonable and unlawful barriers’

Frasers Group chief financial officer Chris Wootton has written to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) calling for it to reconsider its approach to recommended retail prices (RRPs), arguing that its guidance could make it harder for retailers to offer genuine discounts.

Aldi names 25 UK stores set for £300m upgrade programme

Aldi has revealed the next 25 UK stores to receive upgrades as part of its £300m investment in its existing estate this year.

Lewis Hamilton takes on tennis in new episode of content series with Lululemon

Lululemon has unveiled the second episode of its content series with Lewis Hamilton. Titled ‘Rest Day with Lewis Hamilton’, the series follows Hamilton as he explores new challenges and converses with elite athletes across multiple disciplines.