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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

The PHP Licence is dead. Long live BSD-3-Clause!

Six years after an Open Source Initiative certification issue got the ball rolling, the custom PHP Licence and Zend Engine Licence are no more.

Mythos may be pushing the US toward stricter regulation it said would kill AI

The US may want at least a first peek at any powerful model before release.

NixOS: the lesser-known atomic OS France tapped for sovereign migration

France is betting on NixOS's declarative, reproducible model for secure, large-scale deployments—despite governance hiccups and a steep learning curve.

New Chinese open models challenge closed Western top tier

DeepSeek V4 and Qwen3.6-27B, both out last week, put pressure on Western models – especially for pricing.

Still little AI return for UK businesses, Accenture survey finds, and many reasons to worry

Many business leaders think they can turn off AI tomorrow without serious impact, while employees happily use shadow AI.

Palantir doubles down on political project and AI weapons amid growing concern from UK MPs

The company not entirely beloved in UK political circles this weekend re-upped its founder's treatise calling for a more hawkish America, and killer AI.

"The year of surgical refactors": $400 in tokens saves $500k in annual costs, says former vibe-code sceptic

Implementing a JSON data query-and-transform language in Go saves on both latency and Kubernetes costs.

AWS, Azure, offer data egress sweeteners - at the point of a sword

Microsoft will still face an inquiry about bundling cloud with software licences.

China's chipmakers are reportedly in triage mode ahead of expected helium supply cliff

The secretive nature of the helium market makes inventory levels the stuff of rumour and speculation, but it is not looking good.

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