CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs Learning from the lessons of the past interview  Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI… #theregister #IT

CloudBees CEO slams the brakes on AI

interview: Learning from the lessons of the past

Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft opens a free tier for Windows 10 extended updates

: Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please

Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough Just like people Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down – but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision.… #theregister #IT

Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail

: Just like people

Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale. … #theregister #IT

Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom

: Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.… #theregister #IT

MPs question Fujitsu

Updated: Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.… #theregister #IT

Home Office anti-encryption site pushes payday loan scheme

: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan.… #theregister #IT

Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7M

: Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy

HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group – whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent … #theregister #IT

HPE Aruba touts new AI agents and network orchestrator

: NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots

Anthropic won't fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server Fork that - 5k+ times Anthropic says it won't fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt the AI agent to send customer data to an attacker's email, among other things.… #theregister #IT

Anthropic won

: Fork that - 5k+ times

Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth.… #theregister #IT

NASA struggling to execute its planetary defense plan

: Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks