Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy [Wed Nov 17 2021]

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Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary

 

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Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data

Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon

Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

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Lock up your Office macros: Emotet botnet back from the dead with Trickbot links

Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it's returned

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GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry

Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package'

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Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

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Not only MSPs: All cloudy firms are in line for UK security law crackdown

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Intel's recent Atom, Celeron, Pentium chips can be lulled into a debug mode, potentially revealing system secrets

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Alma and Rocky Linux release 8.5 builds, Rocky catches up with secure boot

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Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

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Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary

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Splunk CEO jumps ship, share price slumps despite surging growth

Doug Merritt thanked for service, but no explanation offered for change

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Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle

Caution: Story contains questionable Lego recreation

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A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps

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SAP patent not inventive enough to get legal protection, judge rules

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant

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Russia blows up old satellite, NASA boss 'outraged' as ISS crew shelters from debris

Moscow slammed for 'reckless, dangerous, irresponsible' weapon test

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A diverse range of processing units linked via interconnects. Sounds familiar? Yes, it's IBM's quantum computing

System Two takes modular, data-center-inspired approach. Plus: 127-qubit Eagle Big Blue hopes will fly

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