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Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots

Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme.

The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed a second £500M facility in nearby Kettering, due to open this autumn. The Northampton site spans three floors of robotics, where thousands of Amazon’s ‘Hercules’ robots carry shelves of stock to the people picking orders.

Kettering will become the UK’s largest cross-dock facility, a 900,000 sq ft hub that sorts and routes around 20 million items a week. It is set to create more than 2,000 permanent jobs, with the Northampton centre accounting for a similar number.

“A year ago we said we planned to invest £40 billion in the UK. Today you can see what that means,” said John Boumphrey, Amazon’s UK country manager. “We...

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Ivanti urges Sentry users to patch two critical bugs

Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9 Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets It's patch time for Ivanti customers again after the security shop disclosed another two critical vulnerabilities in one of

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NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered NASA has named the four astronauts set to fly the Artemis III mission in an announcement that raised as many questions as it answered. The quartet is comprised of a Space Shuttle veteran, Randy Bresnik,

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CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31

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Avalanche’s desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma

No one has made a fusion reactor capable of generating power, but physicists have a pretty good road map for how to get there. One major milestone is heating fusion fuel up above 10 million degrees Celsius — nearly as hot as the center of the Sun. Avalanche exclusively told TechCrunch

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Ivanti urges Sentry users to patch two critical bugs

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31

Avalanche’s desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma