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Inside a BBC open source fork: Upstreaming, legal issues, and maintenance
"This is very much a fork that's supposed to be kept up to date with Mainline. This isn't a divergence or a competitive or hostile fork..."
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
Freemans launches brand refresh with ‘multi-million pound’ campaign
Online department store Freemans has unveiled a “multi-million pound” campaign, as a brand refresh that is aimed to appeal to female shoppers over 40. According to the retailer, 40 year-old women drive 93 per cent of household purchasing decisions.
BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
John Moret: The future looks good for SIPPs & SSASs
One of the joys of my slow glide path into retirement is that I am still able to chair a small organisation called The-Pensions-Net-Work. It’s a meeting place for senior pension professionals and gets together usually four times a year to listen to some genuine
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown
Technology prices could jump this Christmas, CIPS warns
Brands, retailers and consumers could be hit hard in the run up to Christmas 2026 as continued supply chain disruption will see double-digit price rises for household staples and technology, warned the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS).
India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
As Microsoft denies alleged ‘fraud and abuse’ that sparked the tweaks
Sainsbury’s launches AI-powered shopping lists in app overhaul
Sainsbury’s has launched a new AI-powered shopping list feature as part of an overhaul of its app. The supermarket’s new SmartLists tool allows customers to create shopping lists by typing, speaking or uploading a photograph of the products they need.
Ocado launches ‘Simple Ingredients’ aisle with over 350 products
Ocado has launched a new ‘Simple Ingredients’ aisle featuring more than 350 products free from artificial additives. The company brought together a selection of branded products made with recognisable ingredients, excluding artificial colours, emulsifiers, stabilisers and…
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
Runtime: Open source isn't Europe's sovereign computing answer — yet
+ Nutanix makes a big open model bet, and SAP adds a context graph to SuccessFactors.
The Morning Briefing: The future looks good for SIPPs & SSASs
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Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
Anyflo emerges from stealth to simplify stablecoin payments for enterprises
Stablecoin payments orchestration service Anyflo has emerged from stealth with news that it has acquired bitcoin lending platform Native.
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
Edinburgh’s St James Quarter welcomes four major signings
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has secured four signings at Westfield St James Quarter in Edinburgh.
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
Lululemon teams up with Ganni for dance-inspired collection
Lululemon has teamed up with Danish fashion brand Ganni to launch a 22-piece collection combining activewear with the Copenhagen label’s signature designs.
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?
SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
Radley appoints new licensing partner as it plots next phase of growth
Handbag and accessories brand Radley has appointed Lloyd Baker Leather Ltd as its new licensing partner, as owner Gordon Brothers looks to rebuild the business following its collapse into administration.