GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual.… #theregister #IT
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months
: Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding The UK Home Office has upped its planned spending on external data and tech consultants by £100 million to a maximum of £350 million.… #theregister #IT
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M
: Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped.… #theregister #IT
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract
: Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
Internet mapping and research tool Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment ‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’ Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.… #theregister #IT
Internet mapping service Censys reveals state-based abuse
: ‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’
India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower India’s government yesterday celebrated an “important milestone” in the development of its semiconductor industry, and therefore the nation’s ambition to become a global contender, but the celebrations seem premature because the… #theregister #IT
India celebrates first home-grown chip despite modest specs
: It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI Champagne will be flowing at Google HQ after US District Judge Amit Mehta decided to do very little to rein in the monopolistic web giant.… #theregister #IT
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly orders modest remedies
: Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI
How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted? The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.… #theregister #IT
How big a Drift? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach
: Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.… #theregister #IT
Commercial surveillanceware shrugs off sanctions, regulation
: Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative
Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware ICE may soon have a new weapon in its arsenal. The White House has reversed a Biden-era decision to suspend the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s purchase of software from commercial … #theregister #IT
ICE spyware deal put on hold by Biden released by Trump
: Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware
Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations A host of plugins also make it a better business tool Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services.… #theregister #IT
Mistral AI
: A host of plugins also make it a better business tool