UK.gov's Top Tech Jobs Pay More than Prime Minister Earns
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is hiring three directors general whose salaries of £200,000‑£260,000 (about $250,000‑$325,000) exceed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s £170,000 (~$212,500) pay. The DG for Digital Products will lead a 650‑person team with a £275 million (~$344 million) budget to launch the GOV.UK app, Chat, a National Digital Wallet and One‑Login. The DG for Digital Transformation will oversee 700 staff and a £200 million (~$250 million) budget, aiming to capture more than £100 million (~$125 million) in AI‑driven productivity gains. The DG for Digital Foundations, paid £174,000 (~$218,000), will manage 900 employees and a £950 million (~$1.19 billion) budget covering cybersecurity, digital identity and broadband infrastructure.
Nutanix Thinks some Azure Cloud Desktops Belong On-Prem to Make Them Usable
Nutanix announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) on‑premises, arguing that hybrid deployment reduces latency for high‑end users. The company downplays Microsoft’s Azure Local offering, saying large enterprises rarely adopt it. Nutanix also unveiled support for Cisco’s...
Researchers Didn’t Want to Glamorize Cybercrims. So They Roasted Them
Security firm Trellix launched the Dark Web Roast, a blog that lampoons ransomware gangs, exploit developers and other cyber‑crime crews with memes and snarky commentary. The effort follows calls from former CISA chief Jen Easterly and others to stop glorifying...
ServiceNow Allegedly Says Salesman 'Overachieved' And Is Not Entitled to Comp
ServiceNow is being sued by long‑time public‑sector sales leader Jorge Costa, who alleges the company refused to pay commissions on more than $27 million in federal contract sales. Costa says he is owed $761,974—double the $380,987 originally promised—for a $7.3 million deal...
Google Is to Journalism What Vikings Were to Monks. Now Their Man Will Run the BBC
Matt Brittin, former President of EMEA Business and Operations at Google, has been named the Director‑General designate of the BBC. The appointment pits a tech‑industry veteran against a public‑service broadcaster steeped in decades of editorial tradition. Brittin will inherit a...
AI Supply Chain Attacks Don’t Even Require Malware…just Post Poisoned Documentation
Andrew Ng's Context Hub service supplies up‑to‑date API documentation to AI coding agents, but its open‑pull‑request workflow lacks any content sanitisation. Security researcher Mickey Shmueli demonstrated a proof‑of‑concept where poisoned documentation caused agents to add malicious PyPI packages to generated code....
Jen Easterly, Cybersecurity's 'Relentless Optimist,' Hopes Feds Come Back to RSAC Next Year
Jen Easterly, former CISA director, took the helm of the RSA Conference (RSAC) as CEO, guiding the 2026 event to 43,000 attendees in San Francisco. She framed the moment as an inflection point where cyber and artificial intelligence are inseparable,...
Oracle: AI Agents Can Reason, Decide and Act - Liability Question Remains
Oracle announced Fusion Agentic Applications, embedding AI agents into its Fusion Cloud suite covering finance, HR, ERP and supply‑chain functions. The agents are marketed as capable of reasoning, deciding and acting autonomously to achieve defined business outcomes. Analysts caution that...
US Chip Testing Firm Shrugged Off Ransomware Hit as Minor - Then Came the Data Leak
Trio-Tech International, a California‑based semiconductor testing firm, disclosed a ransomware attack on its Singapore subsidiary that began on March 11. The breach initially seemed immaterial, but on March 18 the attackers exfiltrated data, prompting the company to label the event potentially material....
Jaguar Land Rover's Cyber Bailout Sets Worrying Precedent, Watchdog Warns
The UK government provided Jaguar Land Rover with a £1.5 billion loan guarantee after a ransomware attack that the Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates cost up to £1.9 billion to the British economy. The cyber watchdog warned that rescuing a single firm without clear criteria...
Anthropic's Claude Claws Its Way Towards the Top of the AI Market
Anthropic’s Claude model saw a 4.9% month‑over‑month rise in business subscriptions in February, while OpenAI’s share slipped 1.5% in the same period. The gap widened as Anthropic’s subscription share grew 2.8 percentage points in January, overtaking many first‑time enterprise adopters...
Storage Vendors Orbit the Nvidia Sun at GTC
At Nvidia’s GTC 2026, storage leaders Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix and Seagate unveiled new integrations with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and AI software stacks. Hitachi iQ now supports Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs and the STX reference architecture, while IBM demonstrated a...
Vite Team Boasts 10-30x Faster Builds with Rust-Powered Rolldown
Vite 8.0 replaces esbuild and Rollup with Rust‑built Rolldown, delivering 10‑30× faster builds while keeping the familiar plugin API. Rolldown, built atop the Oxc Rust library, is still in release‑candidate status, with minification in alpha. The new version is already...
AI Takes on Robotron: 2084, the Original Robot Uprising Simulator
Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, known for Task Manager, is training an AI model to dominate the 1982 arcade classic Robotron 2084 after previously teaching a system to master Atari’s Tempest. The project challenges the AI with split‑joystick controls, endless enemy waves...
Medical Equipment Techs Beg for Right-to-Repair Lifeline
A new Public Interest Research Group survey reveals that 83% of biomedical equipment technicians experience frequent delays in receiving parts, service keys, and manuals, while 70% say diagnostic‑tool restrictions often postpone patient care. OEMs commonly withhold passwords and overcharge for...
Operating Lightning Takes Down SocksEscort Proxy Network Blamed for Tens of Millions in Fraud
Operation Lightning, a coordinated effort by the FBI and law‑enforcement agencies in Austria, France, the Netherlands and six other nations, dismantled the SocksEscort residential proxy network. The operation seized 23 servers, 34 domains across seven countries and froze roughly $3.5 million...
Moody Humans Should Let AI Handle Bad Public Feedback First, Study Finds
Researchers found that automated review monitoring systems (ARMS) reduce public, angry replies to negative customer feedback and boost restaurant ratings. After ARMS adoption, average weekly Dianping scores rose by 0.358 stars, especially for low‑rated venues. The AI‑driven workflow creates structured...
ShinyHunters Claims More High-Profile Victims in Latest Salesforce Customers Data Heist
ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated data from roughly 100 high‑profile companies in a new Salesforce Experience Cloud breach, including Salesforce itself, Snowflake, Okta, LastPass, Sony and AMD. The group leveraged a modified version of Mandiant’s open‑source AuraInspector tool to scan...
Euro Hosting Giant Hiking Prices by up to 50% From April Fool's Day
Hetzner, one of Europe’s largest hosting providers, announced price hikes of up to 50% effective 1 April. The increases apply to all customers across its data centres in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore. Hetzner cites soaring hardware costs, memory shortages...
