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Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?

Four young people lie on green grass in colorful clothing, viewed from above, smiling and relaxing.

Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system

Traditional terraced houses in warm sunset light with parked cars and trees.

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

Canary Wharf business life. Group of business people going home after working day.

Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend

Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

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UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud

When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job

Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence Assistant For Applications And Services. pic by: JLStock / shutterstock

Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI

Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

AI is driving more searches and ads

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

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Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users

Google Cloud Next at London's Excel conference centre

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up

Illustration of a generic white electric car charging at a connected power charger

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers

Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere

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Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran

Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial

Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all

US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders

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Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

infrastructure as cloudy candyfloss: Azure service mesh

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Starts new one on boot loops

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, shake hands after a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 16, 2025

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine

Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough

'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us

Skyhammer. Supplied by Cambridge Aerospace

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies

MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

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How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk

Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents

Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access

With access to great data comes great responsibility

Nothing to see here Windows error dialog

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint

Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly

Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs

Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare

UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

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Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say

Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform

Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people

Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle

The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services

'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree

WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed

UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe

CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp

The 13-year sales vet closed two deals worth $27 million, but ServiceNow has “nullified” his compensation saying he “overachieved” his quota.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.

Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift

Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse

The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics

Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI

Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware

Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce

Just the team, not the tech

Man being kicked by oversized leg with city in background

'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge

CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews

One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog

Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee

Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price

Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices

Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party

Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul

Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now

Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'

24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement

Digital Yuan and China flag in the center of a circuit board

Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand

Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon

Hands removing blocks from a blue Lego house in front of a cloud drawing on a chalkboard

AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart

man hangs onto lamppost to prevent wind from sweeping him out to clouds

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day

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BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’

Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years

Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI

Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers

Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower

Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job

Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse

Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books

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

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war