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* Vodafone TV is launching in October as a set top box and service * It will come with access to Freely, Netflix, and HBO, plus Android TV apps * Users will also be able to stream hundreds of cloud games Vodafone is moving beyond mobile and broadband services to offer a TV
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In banking and utilities, regulators define certain systems as essential. An essential system is one whose failure would cause intolerable harm to customers, markets, or public safety. A payment platform in a clearing bank or a SCADA network in a power distributor, for example, carries the highest governance obligations: continuous
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! Want another reason why there's a big pushback against artificial intelligence? In Dallas, AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks are photographing properties and assigning them a "blight score"
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* UK legislators propose “kill switch” laws to halt runaway AI, citing critical infrastructure risks * Lord Clement‑Jones and MP Alex Sobel push amendments and new bills, backed by ControlAI advocacy group * Similar efforts emerging in US Sam Altman’s fear-based marketing for AI seems to have backfired, as now multiple
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Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has ditched VMware as part of a wider datacenter and network refresh, saving itself more than 85 percent on licensing costs - though its Chief Technology Officer says the decision wasn't purely financial.
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A technical breakdown of the identity stacks securing 16 stadiums across three countries When FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup would span three countries - the US, Mexico, and Canada - stadium security architects quietly started sweating. Not because of the football. Because of the identity problem. Sixty-four matches.
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The most threatening parts of modern infrastructure are often not the ones engineers cannot see, but the ones everyone stopped remembering. Incident At 2:17 a.m., I was convinced we were chasing a network problem. My team was 3 hours into diagnosing a slowdown event that impacted compute capacity
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I want to start with a bug, because this whole rewrite is really an answer to it. Imagine I'm running an MCP server in production, three instances of it behind a load balancer that spreads incoming requests across them. A client connects and the first instance answers. Under
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As AI integrations rapidly evolve from simple API wrapper scripts to fully autonomous agents, software engineers and enterprise architects face a set of critical performance, cost, and reliability bottlenecks. Building production-grade agentic systems requires moving beyond naive prompt chaining. When an agent is granted agency, the ability to execute function
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CrowdStrike announced an expanded partnership with OpenAI to extend CrowdStrike enterprise security to Codex agents, and bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber to the Falcon platform. By securing AI agents at the point of execution and bringing advanced cyber reasoning to the Falcon platform, CrowdStrike and OpenAI help enable customers
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Preserving scientific data has become a pressing demand for researchers and their institutions. Since becoming President of the USA again, Donald Trump has instigated a programme of research database deletion, especially databases that disagree with his personal view that the world is not experiencing a climate emergency. GARR, an academic
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Microsoft is changing how it reports its finances to investors by splitting its businesses into two segments and disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time. The changes are meant to reflect the ongoing impact of AI on Microsoft and how the company now operates. The
