Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks Edge + IoT09 Mar 2026 | 92
Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought Kettle Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead Security09 Mar 2026 | 25
Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up SaaS06 Mar 2026 | 61
Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI Offbeat06 Mar 2026 | 44
UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps Exclusive Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal Edge + IoT06 Mar 2026 | 48
Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war Off-Prem06 Mar 2026 | 30
Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong. SaaS05 Mar 2026 | 7
CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes Updated Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes Science05 Mar 2026 | 20
AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2026 | 14
Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2026 | 9
Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low' Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement Databases04 Mar 2026 | 28
Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2026 | 9
Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS Public Sector03 Mar 2026 | 21
Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code SaaS03 Mar 2026 | 7
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst Channel02 Mar 2026 | 15
AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions UPDATED Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery PaaS + IaaS02 Mar 2026 | 73
AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war Asia In brief PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more! Off-Prem01 Mar 2026 | 8
SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again Opinion Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle SaaS01 Mar 2026 | 20
Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030 SaaS27 Feb 2026 | 1
NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun Off-Prem27 Feb 2026 | 36
FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools Infosec In Brief PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk
Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought Kettle Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract Who, Me? Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours David and Goliath…but with AI agents
MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source
Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2026 | 5
OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up. Channel25 Feb 2026 | 2
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely Updated As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid PaaS + IaaS25 Feb 2026 | 31
Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits Public Sector25 Feb 2026 | 109
DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement Public Sector25 Feb 2026 | 25
Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds Off-Prem25 Feb 2026 | 68
Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise SaaS25 Feb 2026 | 1
UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal Security24 Feb 2026 | 26
Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive SaaS24 Feb 2026 | 52
Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog Business Secretary praises Doug Gurr's pro-growth agenda Public Sector23 Feb 2026 | 19
Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act Offbeat21 Feb 2026 | 86
Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls' PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2026 | 31
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2026 | 77
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant Security20 Feb 2026 | 70
Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking Opinion A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap SaaS19 Feb 2026 | 16
UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours 'Why not 12?' says lawyer AI + ML19 Feb 2026 | 72
As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions Channel18 Feb 2026 | 4
Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle Exclusive Apologizes for 'inaccuracy' SaaS18 Feb 2026 | 51
AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Virtualization17 Feb 2026 | 2
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise Off-Prem16 Feb 2026 | 28
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2026 | 6
ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.” SaaS14 Feb 2026 | 5
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 5
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 2
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 7
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 66
Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions SaaS11 Feb 2026 | 37
Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections Edge + IoT11 Feb 2026 |
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack Devops10 Feb 2026 | 39
Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud! Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game Off-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 12
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 1
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year SaaS09 Feb 2026 | 6
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 9
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation Opinion Sudo make me a star Software09 Feb 2026 | 56
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles Off-Prem08 Feb 2026 | 242
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation Offbeat07 Feb 2026 | 104
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling Off-Prem06 Feb 2026 | 45
Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump SaaS06 Feb 2026 | 17
Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Off-Prem06 Feb 2026 | 41
n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix Patch meant to close a severe expression bug fails to stop attackers with workflow access Security05 Feb 2026 | 5
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern Interview Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2026 | 2
UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog 37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house Off-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 18
Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations team SaaS04 Feb 2026 | 27
Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionality SaaS04 Feb 2026 | 7
Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 22
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports Software04 Feb 2026 | 25
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Software04 Feb 2026 | 153
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking Exclusive Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 22
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 1
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 20
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 25
Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure On-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 75
British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites Public Sector03 Feb 2026 | 56
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive Off-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 25
Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract 'The nature and scope of this work has raised questions' says CEO, who swears he couldn't spot it sooner Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 43
Oracle expects investors to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone Big Red will use debt and equity finance to keep itself in the pink Off-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 21
India dangles 20-year tax holiday for clouds that serve offshore users Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT offshores to Vietnam; Japan adds AI interface to space data; Samsung cashes in on memory boom Public Sector02 Feb 2026 | 3
Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks On-Prem30 Jan 2026 | 27
OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered AI + ML30 Jan 2026 | 25
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native Opinion Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you Off-Prem30 Jan 2026 | 189
If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this Opinion It's not your fault PaaS + IaaS29 Jan 2026 | 95
Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries Redmond has pledged to be carbon-negative by 2030 Off-Prem28 Jan 2026 | 7
Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud PaaS + IaaS28 Jan 2026 | 7
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time AI + ML28 Jan 2026 | 6
Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever Updated Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 11
AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 40
US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day updated Winter storms bring Oracle datacenter down SaaS26 Jan 2026 | 22
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 14
No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming feature Balancing the need to know with the need to get shovels in the ground is causing friction in communities across the US Off-Prem25 Jan 2026 | 24
Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system Databases23 Jan 2026 | 20
Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2026 | 66
Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo SaaS23 Jan 2026 | 10
Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2026 | 7
Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike Mailbox costs leap overnight as longtime users vent their frustration Off-Prem20 Jan 2026 | 65
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 79
England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 8
UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads Labels Zuck’s ad library ‘a window into criminality’ and the Social Network as ‘happy to turn a blind eye’ Legal20 Jan 2026 | 43
Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records Maine filing confirms July attack affected 42,521 employees and job applicants Cyber-crime19 Jan 2026 |
Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that Software19 Jan 2026 | 127