Nearly 80,000 tech workers have already lost their jobs in 2026 — and AI impact means more could be to come

Tech layoffs are on the rise again, though we’re still below the alarming threshold set by the unprecedented year that was 2023.
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RAMageddon: How IT leaders are adapting PC refresh strategy to manage the 2026 memory crunch

Rising memory costs force IT leaders to rethink device refresh, budgets, and procurement strategies.

NHS Scotland domains reportedly found serving adult content and illegal sport streams

A legacy website was compromised and used to promote inappropriate content, but has since been defaced.

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AWS upgrades storage for the AI era — says Amazon S3 Files is ‘the first and only cloud object store that provides fully-featured, high-performance file system access to your data’

Amazon S3 Files makes all your data accessible without you ever having to duplicate it or introduce complex pipelines.
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The post-transformer era has an answer to AI’s energy crisis

The key to solving the AI energy crisis is to move beyond the transformer.

‘We’ve always been about democratizing technology’: NetSuite founder tells us why even your most crucial business data can benefit from the AI revolution

Things are changing in business – so let NetSuite guide you through, founder tells us.

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‘It doesn’t catch fire’: Why China’s “fireproof” sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

Chinese researchers develop sodium-ion battery design that forms internal heat barrier to stop thermal runaway reactions linked to battery fires.
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Could Google Gemini surpass ChatGPT as the biggest AI chatbot within a year? If it maintains its current growth trajectory, I wouldn’t bet against it

Google’s chatbot nearly quadrupled market share in twelve months while ChatGPT cooled slowly, setting up a potential leadership battle by 2027.
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‘Has the Wi-Fi industry been solving the wrong problem?’ A team of former Bell Labs and Nokia engineers wants to make your router 10x better thanks to a unique chip

WavKong introduces a router using Digital Pre-Distortion to improve Wi-Fi consistency, questioning whether industry focus on peak speeds addresses real-world performance.
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Talk about bad timing — even Linux is asking for more RAM now, despite global shortages hitting PC users hard

Ubuntu raises its minimum RAM to 6GB despite global shortages, calling it an honesty bump for modern web browsing and multitasking.
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