The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m It's the longest day of the year Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5
UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire Biz will develop Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the site Science18 Jun 2021 | 45
UK financial watchdog dithers over £680k refund from Google (in ad credits, mind you) for running anti-fraud ads Updated MPs give FCA a telling-off for wasting taxpayer money Off-Prem18 Jun 2021 | 21
Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm… Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now Offbeat18 Jun 2021 | 107
Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper Legal17 Jun 2021 | 123
UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets Like the massive ships with miniguns Offbeat16 Jun 2021 | 83
Papa don't breach: UK data watchdog fines that other pizza place £10,000 over unsolicited marketing blitz Papa John's falls foul of 'soft opt-in' exemption in PECR rules Security16 Jun 2021 | 19
Capita scores half a billion pound outsourcing contract, but refuses to name (or shame?) lucky 'European telco' customer Now why on Earth would you be shy about your £528m relationship? Networks15 Jun 2021 | 9
Brit IT firms wound up by court order after fooling folk into paying for 'support' over fake computer errors Companies were puppets to Indian biz Underpin Services Private Limited Security15 Jun 2021 | 40
Mensa data spillage was due to 'unauthorised internal download' Exclusive Book smarts vs street smarts face-off might have been an inside job, claims egghead chief Software15 Jun 2021 | 113
'Welcome to Perth' mirth being milked for all it's worth Chap painted greeting on rooftop... in Sydney Bootnotes14 Jun 2021 | 36
Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses' Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households Networks14 Jun 2021 | 14
Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns Systems11 Jun 2021 | 52
UK competition bods to keep tabs on Google, ensure 'Privacy Sandbox' doesn't distort competition CMA claims to have taken 'oversight role' over removal of third-party cookies Software11 Jun 2021 | 4
Shuttered call centre sours Capita's £58m contract extension with Tesco Mobile Communication Workers Union believes 'scores of employees' will be placed 'at risk' under proposals Networks11 Jun 2021 | 8
BT 'welcomes' whopping £2bn investment by French telco Altice Buy-in comes after (nearly) 24 years of living next door to Altice Networks10 Jun 2021 | 22
Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec Let's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor Networks10 Jun 2021 | 7
'Ring of fire' headed to northern UK – a partial solar eclipse, not the sensation you get after a potent vindaloo Russia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty Science10 Jun 2021 | 19
It is with a heavy heart that we must tell you America's richest continue to pay not quite as much tax as you do Have you tried simply being more powerful and wealthy? Offbeat09 Jun 2021 | 48
'I put the interests of the country first': Colonial Pipeline CEO on why oil biz paid off ransomware crooks Mandiant investigation says crims gained access through legacy VPN Security09 Jun 2021 | 23
UK online spending up 48%, hits £113bn as nation puts curtains in its sheds, empties supermarket shelves Regulator airs country's muddy laundry - including fact it rarely unplugs Offbeat09 Jun 2021 | 1
Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit) AI + ML09 Jun 2021 | 10
Google ad biz shenanigans smacked down by French competition regulators Chocolate Factory competition-squashing tactics receive a firm 'Non' from Paris Legal08 Jun 2021 | 9
Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more Offbeat08 Jun 2021 | 50
There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself With his brother in tow, poor sod Science07 Jun 2021 | 50
Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo Breeding season takes a tern for the worse Offbeat07 Jun 2021 | 28
Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers Can be viewed in any light. Bargain Bootnotes07 Jun 2021 | 58
Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate 'Is that a dong on a drone?' Bootnotes04 Jun 2021 | 48
Latest on iCloud storage 'outsourcing' lawsuit against Apple: Damages class certified Plaintiffs say they would've gone elsewhere had they known iGiant was just using Amazon, Microsoft or Google Storage04 Jun 2021 | 13
Facebook faces competition enquiry on two fronts as EU and UK officials scrutinise its ad data Did the anti-social network use advertiser info to compete with rivals? Legal04 Jun 2021 | 4
Brit retailer Furniture Village confirms 'cyber-attack' as systems outage rolls into Day 7 Sofa, not-so-good: Angry customers still can't access systems, phones, and deliveries delayed Security04 Jun 2021 | 25
Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant We wanted to post a dad joke about sodium, but we thought: Na, people will groan... Science03 Jun 2021 | 136
Hybrid working? Buckle in, there's no turning back as survey takers insist: You can't make us go back No, literally, let's make illegal Offbeat03 Jun 2021 | 73
Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden HPC02 Jun 2021 | 6
What a difference 4 years makes: Cloudera goes private again in $5.3bn buyout CDR and KKR the new owners of shape-shifting data platform biz Databases01 Jun 2021 |
Royal Yacht Britannia's successor to cost about 1 North of England NHS IT consultancy framework Boatnotes Yep, UK.gov to build literal flagship - for about £200m Bootnotes01 Jun 2021 | 172
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