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BNP Paribas spent up to €2 million a year on data copying, transformation, and reconciliation across 64 countries. Adding a new data source took more than a year. The fix, announced this month, was to stop copying the data and let consumers query it where it lives. The principle scales down to any SME with more than one system.

On 2 June the UK launched its first new payment scheme since Faster Payments in 2008. Thirty-one founding members, the big nine banks, GoCardless, TrueLayer, Token.io, Yapily. The target is the £1.5 billion a year that UK merchants pay Visa and Mastercard. Wave one is utilities, government, and charities. Wave two is the rest of e-commerce.

Railway, a developer platform spending $24 million a year on Google Cloud, was switched off without warning for eight hours. Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget by mid-April. One Dell employee racked up $3,400 of token costs in a day. The numbers behind 'post-cloud' are real, even if the term is over-marketed.

Gov.uk Pay is switching its payment processor from Stripe to Adyen for around 1,000 services. The interesting thing is not which provider won. It is that £9 billion of public-sector payments can be moved across at all, because the contract was designed for it.

A single GitHub employee installed a trojanised Nx Console extension and around 3,800 internal repositories walked out. The interesting question isn't what GitHub will do next. It's what your editor and browser extensions can already reach.

The NCSC has published guidance on decommissioning assets. The headline is simple: things you no longer use stop being assets and start being liabilities. The boring work of switching them off is one of the highest-value security jobs most businesses skip.

Two-step verification on. Domain ownership protection on. GoDaddy transferred a non-profit's 27-year-old domain to a stranger in four minutes. The lesson is about the registrar layer most businesses never think about.

Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they have an AI exit plan. Nearly half admit switching would seriously disrupt the business. A plan you can't execute is not a plan.

Western Digital's entire HDD capacity for 2026 is sold out. Cloud is 89% of their revenue. HDD prices are up 46% since September. The window for sensible storage pricing is closing.

Viva.com sends verification emails missing the Message-ID header. Google Workspace and Zoho reject them. The fix is one line of code.