The Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an appeals phase this month, attracting the attention of a multibillion-pound class action against the Windows giant. The appeal, due to be heard on April 28 and 29, follows a ruling by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in November that the resale of perpetual licenses for…
The British government is spending £15 million over the next three years to improve crime mapping in England and Wales, partly to allow more targeted policing of knife crime. The Home Office says its national mapping tool, which divides England and Wales into 1.46 million hexagons of around 0.1 square kilometers, found that all the…
Capita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an “issue” briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers. This breach took place “for around 35 minutes” on March 30, Capita said, “affecting the accuracy of a small number of Annual Benefit Statements (ABS) generated in…
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government’s digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister’s salary. The DG for digital products will oversee the full launch of the GOV.UK app and development of GOV.UK Chat, the National Digital Wallet,…
For obvious reasons, I’ve had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit. Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is incredible, and if you haven’t listened to it, go do that now. But it also seemed a bit on the…
UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account. The company, a technology-led oil and gas firm focused on developing assets in the US Rocky Mountain region, said on Thursday that one of…
I’ve spent over a decade telling anyone who’d listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would…
Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role. Liuson is part of Microsoft’s CoreAI division, introduced by CEO Satya Nadella in January 2025 and headed by EVP Jay Parikh, former head of engineering at Meta, who joined the company in…
Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown. Apple Intelligence includes an on-device LLM integrated into supported iPhone 15 Pro and later eligible models, iPads…
America’s war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year. This is the bad news from market watcher IDC, which says that the remainder of the year will see further declines in PC…