Public Sector Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K The Home Office’s digital division is recruiting three chief technology officers (CTOs) for migration and borders and enterprise services, each paid £81,000 to £105,000 a year. It is looking for two CTOs for Migration and Borders Digital,…
AI + ML If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won’t question the math An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects to burn $50 billion on computing power before the end of the year. Cofounder and president Greg Brockman threw out the number,…
PAAS + IAAS £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in The UK government has defended its decision to put Palantir at the heart of analytics in the National Health Service. The US spy-tech firm was awarded the contract to underpin the Federated Data Platform (FDP) after winning a succession…
SaaS Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic – backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network – is coming for it. Anthropic and a group of investors are launching a standalone AI-native…
Security Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree. The Board is India’s…
PaaS + IaaS Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs. The new service, currently in preview, allows users to assign agents an identity using Amazon’s Identity and Access Management service. Using those credentials, agents can access…
Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS Neocloud IREN has decided to buy Mirantis, and the two plan to build an open AI stack. Mirantis made its name developing open source cloud infrastructure, such as its OpenStack distribution, hyperconverged appliances, and Kubernetes tools. In…
SaaS EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake Three UK councils have hit problems processing planning applications and land searches following a systems migration to a new software-as-a-service provider. Local citizens have suffered the consequences such as house sales falling through, the installation of a 5G mast…
Bootnotes MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system The UK’s answer to Shahed-style attack drones was successfully tested in Jordan, and British forces are set to receive their first shipments this month. In a rare example of rapid procurement, the first tranche of Skyhammer interceptors and launchers will be delivered to the UK’s armed…
FEATURE: Ubuntu doesn’t just mean GNOME – or Wayland. Alongside the default edition of Ubuntu 26.04 last week, editions with seven other desktops were released, five of which still offer X.org. Just under a fortnight ago, we covered the launch of Ubuntu 26.04. Ubuntu’s default desktop is GNOME, and this version contains GNOME 50, which is Wayland-only….