Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.… #theregister #IT
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.… #theregister #IT
CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs Learning from the lessons of the past interviewΒ  Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI… #theregister #IT
Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.… #theregister #IT
Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough Just like people Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down – but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision.… #theregister #IT
Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale. … #theregister #IT
Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.… #theregister #IT
UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.… #theregister #IT
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by Β£26.7 million after revising data strategy Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan.… #theregister #IT
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group – whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent … #theregister #IT