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Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
Three jailed for £70m pension fraud targeting 3,000 investors
Three men have been jailed for a combined 15 years and nine months for running a seven-year, £70m investment fraud. The trio duped more than 3,000 people, many of them pensioners, out of their savings. Matthew Pickard, 56, was sentenced to six years in prison,
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
BRC stresses “retailers don’t need warm words, they need lower costs” after August footfall dip
Footfall across the UK fell in August, according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) figures, with the membership body once again calling for government action on business rates and energy costs.
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
You can restart an AI agent. Can you undo what it did?
As enterprise AI agents start running in production, finding the kill switch is harder than it sounds.
Alistair Cunningham: When disengagement is the answer for clients
Advice firms like retention rates. We use them as evidence that clients value what we do, and broadly that is fair. A business that regularly loses clients probably has a problem. It does not follow that keeping everyone is evidence of excellence. I can think
Reviewing underwriting rules for mental health can ‘strengthen your entire book’
Guardian Financial Services has updated its underwriting rules for mental-health disclosures, to improve outcomes for those affected by conditions such as anxiety. As a result, 97% of life insurance applicants received an instant decision in June 2026, up from 87% in 2025.
Nvidia confirms $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face
Hugging Face needed "more compute, more support... more visibility" says CEO.
Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users
When the moon is in the seventh house...
CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance
But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully
The Morning Briefing: Three jailed for £70m pension fraud targeting 3,000 investors; When disengagement is the answer for clients
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OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s
The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Runtime: AWS plants a Cedar; JFrog's under attack (again); Dell doubles down
+ Anthropic's new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards data-storage service, and METR racks up an unwelcome AI bill.
Ad Astra: OpenAI launches GPT-6
Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC
Auction of Very Group halted as bidders fail to hit £2bn asking price
The sale of multi-brand online retailer Very Group is close to being scrapped, according to reports. Sky News has learnt that a sale process is unlikely to proceed after potential bidders, including the Chinese marketplace JD.com, refused to meet the £2bn asking price.
Revolut achieves conditional OCC approval for US national bank status
Revolut has received conditional approval from the US Officer of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a national bank.
Outgoing John Lewis MD: UK economy facing a ‘permacrisis’
Peter Ruis, who is due to step down as managing director of John Lewis this month, has said that British businesses are facing a “permacrisis externally [which] isn’t going to go away”.
