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Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

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London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G

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If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks

The small pool of suppliers understand their market power

5 Steps for a Cost-efficient Migration to AWS Cloud eBook

Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

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Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling

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Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it

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MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?

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Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

More than a dozen women came forward with accusations

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China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

Sly like a PRC cyberattack

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Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war

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Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks

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The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes With Sample Architecture Diagrams and CloudFormation Templates

MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

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IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio

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Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?

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Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

53 Comments

OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble

Dispute settled, but not the causes

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Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine

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How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process

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Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on

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HIPAA Compliance on AWS

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The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory

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Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

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Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco [Wed Feb 26 2025]

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Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

On-Prem

London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks

5 Steps for a Cost-efficient Migration to AWS Cloud

Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale

Security

Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes

MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale

Software

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble

Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

HIPAA Compliance on AWS

Offbeat

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

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