Microsoft-Owned GitHub Says It'll Move 50% Traffic to Azure by July to Help with Outages
GitHub announced it will route at least half of its traffic through Microsoft Azure by July. The shift responds to a series of high‑impact outages blamed on “extremely rapid” user growth and failover failures in its existing infrastructure. CTO Vlad Fedorov said the scaling limitations exposed by the traffic surge require a more robust cloud backbone. The migration is expected to improve availability and reduce latency for millions of developers.
Leonardo's Becrypt Buyout Targets Five Eyes Cyber Deals
Leonardo announced the acquisition of UK‑based endpoint and cloud security specialist Becrypt, expanding its cyber portfolio. The deal gives Leonardo a stronger foothold with the UK government and the broader Five Eyes intelligence alliance. By integrating Becrypt’s capabilities, Leonardo aims...
SAP Says FPS01 Puts S/4HANA One Step Short of Autonomy
SAP introduced the first major features update, FPS01, for its hosted private S/4HANA instances. The update adds AI‑driven agents that analyze tasks across systems and suggest concrete actions, stopping short of autonomous execution. SAP positions this as the penultimate step...
NVIDIA May Be Plotting Enterprise-Grade OpenClaw, but Adoption Fears Persist Across the Globe
NVIDIA is preparing an enterprise‑grade AI platform called "Nemo," explicitly referencing the notorious OpenClaw security framework. The move signals NVIDIA’s intent to embed advanced security features into its AI stack, but it also revives lingering concerns about OpenClaw’s vulnerability history....
The Big Interview: New Look's COO on Migrating to SAP, Leaving IBM for Databricks and More...
Lynda Petherick, originally hired to find a CIO, now serves as both COO and CIO of New Look, a UK fashion retailer that posted $929 million in revenue for 2025. Under her leadership the company is migrating its core ERP to...
UK MoD to Sign £21m Contract to Stay on Janes OSINT Platform
The UK Ministry of Defence will sign a £21 million contract to remain on Janes’ open‑source intelligence (OSINT) platform. The decision follows an internal review that found no viable commercial alternatives to Janes for defence‑grade data. Janes will continue providing curated...
Graph Databases: The Unexpected Secret Sauce of AI Applications?
Graph databases are emerging as essential infrastructure for enterprise AI, offering a way to map relationships that reduces hallucinations, improves explainability, and enforces data governance. Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem highlights that knowledge graphs give LLMs transparent access to corporate data,...
UK's AI Copyright Plans Would Harm Local Industry Say Peers
The UK government is drafting new copyright rules that would extend protection to AI‑generated works, requiring developers to obtain licences for training data. Industry leaders managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend argue the measures will lock UK firms into...
OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo as Enterprise AI Platform Wars Heat Up
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Promptfoo, a fast‑growing platform that automates testing and validation of large‑language‑model prompts. The deal, terms undisclosed, brings Promptfoo’s open‑source tooling and enterprise‑grade safety features under OpenAI’s product umbrella. By integrating Promptfoo, OpenAI aims to streamline...
Online Retailer Zalando Trims AWS Bill by Getting Manual with Flink Stream Filtering
Zalando, which generates roughly €3 billion in quarterly fashion sales, ran into soaring AWS costs and unstable Flink clusters due to the way Flink 1.20’s Table API handled chained joins. The joins caused state to balloon to over 240 GB per application, leading...
Claude Is Much Better at Calling Bull on Nonsense Prompts
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus now push back against nonsensical prompts, rejecting them over 70% and eventually more than 90% of the time. A benchmark shows pre‑Q3‑2025 LLMs accepted such prompts at least 50% of the time. Competing models...
Are We Overlooking Small Language Models? Everything You Need to Know About Efficient SLMs
Researchers are championing small language models (SLMs) as a cost‑effective alternative to massive AI systems, highlighting breakthroughs that deliver near‑state‑of‑the‑art performance with a fraction of the parameters. Efficient fine‑tuning techniques and model distillation enable these compact models to run on...
Banks – and Google – Open to Gemini-Powered Exfil via Public API Keys, Researchers Say
Security firm Truffle Security revealed that publicly exposed Google API keys can be upgraded to full‑access Gemini credentials, enabling data exfiltration from any organization using them. A November scan uncovered 2,863 such keys, affecting major banks, security vendors, and even...
Accenture Wins Competition-Free £54m From Post Office
The UK Post Office has awarded Accenture a £54 million, competition‑free contract to manage its back‑office IT services from April 2026 through June 2029. The deal covers finance, ERP, HR, process automation and application modernisation across more than 11,500 branches, but excludes the...
Google's Air Gapped Cloud Gets "Public-Like" Networking
Google Cloud has unveiled a new networking layer that gives its air‑gapped, confidential computing environments public‑like connectivity. The feature leverages zero‑trust VPC Service Controls to keep workloads isolated while allowing them to communicate with external services as if they were...
How This Cybersecurity Firm’s Graph Database Investment Is Paying Off
Darktrace, fresh from its $5.3 billion Thoma Bravo acquisition, migrated its security platform to Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database, to map threats across complex cloud environments in real time. The shift enables multi‑hop relationship queries that relational databases struggle with at...
Natwest Group CEO Touts Near-Term Agentic AI Workflow Future
NatWest Group CEO Paul Thwaite announced that the bank is shifting from basic chatbots to autonomous AI systems capable of executing complex banking workflows for customers. He expects many of the underlying components to be operational within the year. However,...
UK Customers Aren't as Worried About Sovereignty as EU, Cisco Exec Says
Cisco’s EMEA president Gordon Thomson told The Stack that British companies are less preoccupied with data‑sovereignty than their European counterparts. He noted that infrastructure autonomy has become a board‑level fear across the region, while AI localisation requirements are muddying the...
