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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.

Microsoft turns on shadow AI by default, says not to worry

If you don't turn off multiple account access, employees can log in with personal credentials to get Copilot.

Fire up the auto-forward: Gmail kills POP3 fetch

Because it hates that ancient email workflow you never updated. And also easy migration.

new deepseek model takes sparse attention approach

"Significant efficiency improvements" claimed in long-context, alongside costs on par with Gemini Flash and gpt-5-nano.

South Korea says 'weeks' to full restore after UPS goes bang

Sparking decade-plus lithium took down hundreds of servers that turned out to have no failover.

MS goes silent on Trump attack – with Europe watching

Microsoft has nothing to say about its Europe-focused global affairs head Lisa Monaco.

Bitnami's 'rug pull', Helm's future, and questions of community

On September 29, Bitnami goes much more premium, and the software community needs to consider its approach to deployment.

Co-op's £206m ransomware lesson: be rich, don't sell tobacco

One section of the group even made an (operating) profit due to the cyber attack, its interim numbers show.

Optus's deadly failed firewall update keeps getting worse

"Significant consequences" promised, regulators scramble, process reviews – all due to a single failed update.

Palantir entrenches in UK military, Salesforce AI calls UK home

Salesforce also gets into the UK-not-Europe game, just as Donald Trump declares his love for Britain.

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