A slice of Raspberry Pi in 2026 - the little computer that's saying a big no to unethical use of its technology
Raspberry Pi's educational roots have expanded far and wide, but let's keep it out of the real-life battlefields...
Governing identity privacy and security
The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes
News items from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, how OpenAI spurned investor wooing, someone's probably looking over your shoulder as you read this, and some welcome 'peace and love' from Haight Ashbury via Salesforce's Marc Benioff.
Every GPU has to work with PyTorch to reach the market - so who's making sure it stays open?
Every time a new chip ships and a CEO takes the stage to announce it, there is a question that does not get asked from the podium: can it actually run AI workloads? The answer, almost without exception, runs through PyTorch.
.pnge0a3.webp "Mark Collier of PyTorch at KubeCon Europe © CNCF Events")
Months after deciding AWS and Microsoft do have unhealthy market dominance, the UK competition regulator decides the best course of action is...do nothing. WTF?!?
With one bound they were free...
Mean time to innocence - Splunk's case for why your observability data is as much a political problem as a technical one
When a VIP customer calls and the trace has been discarded, you can't prove the issue wasn't yours. Splunk's Stephane Estevez has a name for that problem - and an argument for why fixing it starts long before the incident.
How annoying! The $165 billion industry that means that everything sucks! Get used to it!
The Annoyance Economy is a real thing - and it's here to stay. Welcome to Larry David's world!
How Mumsnet is using AI to improve the lives of women without giving away its valuable data
MumsGPT has helped shine a light on medical misogyny, but site moderation will remain human.
Here's a thing - what if shadow AI is actually telling us something useful?
AvePoint’s Dana Louise Simberkoff argues that shadow AI could be viewed as a cultural stress test rather than a technology failure.
Celonis - Europe's defense reckoning has an execution gap and a sovereignty problem
Celonis argues that Europe's defense spending surge will fail to deliver real capability unless governments address the execution gap — the fragmented, legacy-laden industrial and logistics processes underneath the hardware
Monday Morning Moan - Educating Melania. Hey robo-teacher, leave those kids alone!
US First Lady Melania Trump envisages generations of kids being taught by robot teachers. Empowering worldview or a dystopian nightmare waiting to happen? Educate yourselves and find out.
AI needs to be inclusive by design – here’s how the NHS, Microsoft and GoFibre think it can be done
Audits, augmentation and appeals processes on the cards.
The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes
News from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, some big names on Trump 2.0's latest list, Sam Altman's no longer indulging in Mickey Mouse thinking, and Meta couldn't have had a worse work in the courts if it had tried!
OpenSSF's CRob on why open source security is still a people problem - and why AI is making it worse before it makes it better
Four years after Log4Shell, 14% of affected artifacts are still being downloaded in vulnerable versions. OpenSSF's Chief Security Architect explains why AI agents are compounding the maintainer burden, and what enterprises should be doing about it right now.
.png5914.webp "Christopher Robinson AKA CRob at KubeCon Europe")
