Credulous minister claims MoU – not contract – with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth'
The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector.…
The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions
Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.…
The QUIC transport-layer network protocol is not exactly new; it was first
covered here in 2013. Despite carrying a
significant part of the traffic on the Internet, QUIC has been anything but
quick when it comes to getting support into the Linux kernel. The pace
might be picking up, though; Xin Long has posted
the first set of
patches intended to provide mainline support for this protocol.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tomcat9), Debian (djvulibre, libcommons-fileupload-java, libowasp-esapi-java, and tomcat9), Fedora (cef, dpkg, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, and mingw-python3), Gentoo (Roundcube), Oracle (avahi, cloud-init, fence-agents, git, kernel, and valkey), Red Hat (wireshark), SUSE (afterburn, apache2, busybox, java-21-openjdk, kernel, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_10, lemon, libexslt0, libgcrypt, libxml2-2, php8, postgresql17, python, python-oslo.utils, python311, python312, python313, and sudo), and Ubuntu (drupal7, erlang, fdkaac, gobgp, jq, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, and ruby-nokogiri).
'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools told
The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware attacks, under new measures outlined today.…
After abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf software
The UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its £410 million ($552 million) plan to replace its ageing POS and accounting system, and may force changes to awarded contracts.…
Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns
Analysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.…
At DebConf25 in Brest,
France, the
talk "When Free Software Communities Unite: Tails, Tor, and the
Fight for Privacy" was delivered by a man who introduced himself only
as intrigeri. He delivered an overview of the Tor Project, its mission, and
the projects under the umbrella. He also spoke about how the
organization depends on Debian, and plans for the software it
delivers.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (angular.js and batik), Fedora (chromium, pypy, screen, unbound, wine, and wine-mono), Mageia (djvulibre, quictls, and redis), Red Hat (avahi, gnome-remote-desktop, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support, java-21-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, python-setuptools, redis, and valkey), SUSE (chromedriver, coreutils, cosign, docker, FastCGI, ffmpeg-4, fractal, gimp, glib2, ImageMagick, iputils, java-17-openjdk, java-24-openjdk, jq, kubelogin, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, kubernetes1.26, python-requests, python3, rmt-server, rustup, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (apache2).
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped in with a decoder they say could fill the gap.…