NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess
National Savings & Investments (NS&I) is looking for a new chief executive to take charge of the state-backed savings institution […]
Month: June 2026
Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day
Great Marlow School in Buckinghamshire, England, has entered its second day of a shutdown following “a suspected malware incident.” Only […]
Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack
The University of Nottingham has confirmed a cyberattack on its student record system after the ShinyHunters crew claimed to have […]
UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund
The UK Treasury will not say whether it will join the government’s £1.7 billion finance and HR transformation strategy until […]
Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly screed where we highlight those who did not do the deed of […]
Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear
AI companies have touted context retention (memory) and the availability of personal details (personalization) as mechanisms for improving AI model […]
Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate
Multiple reports indicate that Chinese operatives continue using every tech tool at their disposal – including American AI – to […]
It blocked us at ‘hello!’ Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts
Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 generative AI model is trying so hard to be safe that it’s hurting its […]
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR
I love Star Trek so much. I’ve watched most Trek series multiple times over the decades, and was shocked when, […]
Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030
Energy consumed by datacenters is set to grow 26 percent this year thanks to AI, and grid supply may be […]