Legal Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen has had his eBay account reinstated after the platform suspended him for selling personal items to help fund his takeover bid for the digital auction house. Less than 12 hours after Cohen announced he was selling various…
public sector Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs The UK Home Office is bringing the Police National Database (PND) cloud migration in-house after a transformation program faced an additional £26 million in costs and an 18 months delay. The PND shares information across all police forces, law…
This week was the best of times for Akamai and the worst of times for Cloudflare. On the same evening, content delivery network mainstay Cloudflare announced it was cutting about a fifth of its staff in a realignment around AI, its competitor Akamai announced a seven-year, $1.8 billion deal with a leading LLM provider that…
Offbeat A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive The veteran editor Vi turns 50 this year, and what better way to celebrate than to write a version in BASIC? The code was created by Lee Tusman, who likes to be a little out of step with…
Security Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE A fresh Linux privilege escalation bug dubbed “Dirty Frag” has dropped into the wild with no patches, no CVE, and a public exploit that hands attackers root access across major distributions. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed the local privilege escalation flaw…
Personal Tech Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it Administrators who want a Windows version of Raspberry Pi Connect need to register their interest, or else the Pi team might ditch the concept. Raspberry Pi Connect is a tool that lets admins remotely access a Raspberry…
CxO Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes OPINION Twice this week we’ve been told by our would-be tech oligarchs that people are being paid to hate them. Alex Karp said 10 percent of the world professionally hates Palantir and Kevin O’Leary said paid agitators were protesting his Utah…
ai and ml It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too It’s getting more expensive to use the latest models. OpenAI last month bumped the version number of its GPT model family to 5.5, and per-token prices rose too, in some cases doubling compared to its predecessor. For 1 million tokens, GPT-5.5 is…
on-prem BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries The Iran conflict is adding to supply-chain disruption for datacenter construction projects, bumping up material costs and causing shortages due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. So says server hall project specialist BCS Consultancy, which claims construction firms are seeing…
Asus’s latest gaming monitor is a little smaller than usual. The ROG Strix XG129C, announced on Friday, is a 12.3-inch touchscreen IPS display that’s intended to be a sidekick for a larger main monitor, similar to the 14.1-inch secondary display in the 2020 Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15. It’s a slightly smaller competitor to Corsair’s…