Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Valve has opened pre-orders for its forthcoming Steam Machine – but it is going to cost you quite a lot, […]
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21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red’s big bets on AI
Oracle’s workforce shrank by 21,000 over the last year, according to the company’s annual report. In June 2025 [PDF], Big […]
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028
President Trump has ordered the development of a quantum computer to ensure that the US maintains a strategic technical advantage, […]
Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit
Microsoft has demonstrated that there is life in the old dog yet with an update to the Access relational database […]
AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime
AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs, built on its Firecracker virtual machine monitor, which can run isolated Linux containers with runtimes […]
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form
Development of GIMP has picked up speed in recent years, but now its first public release is back as a […]
Brits still reckon Big Tech isn’t paying enough tax
The majority of Britons still believe Big Tech should be contributing more to the public purse, new research suggests. Polling […]
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Siting datacenters either on the water or underwater is an idea that just won’t sink, and there is increasing interest […]
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
BORK!BORK!BORK! Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty person? Some distressed digital signage on the island of São Miguel in Portugal’s […]
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’
The leaders of intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK […]