legal
UK tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all US charges – as his lawyers blast HP “ineptitude”
Jury says UK entrepreneur innocent. Ruling "closes the book on a relentless 13-year effort to pin HP’s well-documented ineptitude on Dr Lynch.”
datacentre
Surging AI business means datacentres could switch on “no vacancy” signs
Enterprise users dwarfed by AI and hyperscalar demand
News
Warning over Azure Service Tags vulnerability backed by infosec pros
Tenable research "revealed an attack surface most users of Azure service were probably not accounting for..."
News
NHS will fail to count death toll of London hospital cyberattack, CEO warns
"Right now, *no one* has died from a cyberattack that has targeted or shut down a hospital, but actuarial data shows that more than 300 people *probably* died as a result of WannaCry"
News
Adobe joins Microsoft in admitting it's now basically spyware
Updated terms give Adobe the right to “access your content through both automated and manual methods”.
Databricks
Databricks' new open data type wins praise from Goldman's CDO
But Apache Hudi chief sounds a cautionary note over this week's $1 billion "Tabular" acquisition
Veeam
Veeam bites the bullet, embraces Linux
Also new: Veeam Data Cloud Vault, and forthcoming support for MongoDB, EntraID backups.
Monzo
Monzo finally turns a profit, ramps up tech spend £18.5m
The challenger bank has made big investments in tech and is committed to building its own native systems to own every part of its stack
NYSE
Software update bug triggers brief NYSE chaos, market feed data centre failover
"CTA failed over to the secondary data center, which is operating on the previous version of the software."
Snowflake
Snowflake: CrowdStrike and Mandiant say we're clean
"This appears to be a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication"
hugging face
Hugging Face left with split lip after someone punches way into Spaces secrets
"We pledge to use this as an opportunity to strengthen the security of our entire infrastructure"
Snowflake
Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
"The user must be left in the disabled state for 6 hours to fully invalidate any possible unauthorized access via this ID token feature."