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Saturday, January 24, 2026 12:58 AM ET

Register UK - Technology

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security - Scanning the future

7 days ago

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark - On Call - Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory

16 hours ago

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% -- Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide

11 hours ago

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate -- Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system

5 hours ago

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options -- As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control

11 hours ago

CISA won't attend infosec industry's biggest conference this year -- exclusive -- But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there

5 hours ago

Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide -- UK watchdog investigates accuracy of data handed over for SMS market review -- Legal

6 hours ago

Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today -- If you skipped it back then, now's a very good time -- Patches

7 hours ago

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds -- updated -- If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys

5 hours ago

ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs -- 'A lot more' victims to come, we're told -- Cyber-crime

11 hours ago

China's Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop - and, yes, built-in AI - Hands On - Where FOSS desktop OSes meet geopolitics - OSes - 23 Jan 2026 - | 14

4 hours ago

Hacker taps Raspberry Pi to turn Wi-Fi signals into wall art -- Pipe local wireless noise through an SDR into an RPi, and 64 LED filaments do the rest -- Offbeat

12 hours ago

NASA planet hunter resumes operations after low power incident -- Pointing problem left TESS in the dark -- Science

12 hours ago

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec -- Security chief says criminals are already automating workflows, with full end-to-end tools likely within years -- CSO

12 hours ago

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate -- Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system -- Databases

12 hours ago

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities -- One-time FSD purchase no longer available as Elon Musk talks up future where drivers can be asleep at the wheel -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options -- As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control -- Databases

11 hours ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key - Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip

2 days ago

Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch -- Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in -- CSO

17 hours ago

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% -- Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide -- Systems

18 hours ago

British government caves on datacenter approval after legal challenge -- Ministry admits greenlighting London-based megabit barn without proper environmental safeguards -- On-Prem

19 hours ago

London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack -- Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming -- Cyber-crime

19 hours ago

UK trade department put civil servants' feelings first during Windows 11 migration -- Is that the cloud? No, it's incense wafting through Whitehall -- Offbeat

18 hours ago

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start -- Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations -- Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo -- SaaS

1 day ago

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons -- CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2 -- Systems

1 day ago

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client -- Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects -- Systems

1 day ago

Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better

12 hours ago

Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns

1 day ago

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge "SkyHammer" Scale Up Fabric Switch

2 days ago

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

7 days ago

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack - Opinion - Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

11 hours ago

Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams - Teach a crook to phish... Cyber-crime - 22 Jan 2026 - |

19 hours ago

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy -- You can't just grab 'em by the mine shafts - there aren't any -- Public Sector

1 day ago

AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations -- 100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance -- The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails -- Logging in, not breaking in -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption -- Dentists least likely to get an LLM kick in the teeth -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Windows fails to tip the scales in grocery store deployment - Bork!Bork!Bork! Recovery from an excess of sprouts, or something else? Offbeat - 22 Jan 2026 - | 18

17 hours ago

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

1 day ago

LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

2 days ago

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'

3 days ago

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

4 days ago

AI vibe coding: when automation convenience becomes security debt - Intruder's AI-coded honeypot revealed the hidden risks of letting machines write production code - Partner Content

1 day ago

Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains -- Beleaguered country, unfortunately, has plenty of data from its conflict -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – 23 January

13 hours ago

OpenDrives appoints new CEO amid shift to video software

15 hours ago

ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances

16 hours ago

Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers

1 day ago

Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor -- GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry -- Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike -- Networks

1 day ago

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? Do TOPS trump everything else? Sponsored Feature

3 days ago

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it -- Veteran text editor gets more AI enhancements while Paint will be able to generate coloring books -- OSes

1 day ago

Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up -- Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force -- Security

1 day ago

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16 -- As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push -- Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture -- Launch vehicle due to make maiden flight this year, company promises update in February earnings call -- Science

1 day ago

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition -- Updated -- System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC -- Databases

1 day ago

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight - Program will train just 20 people per year - Public Sector - 22 Jan 2026 - | 9

17 hours ago

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- When the operating system is older than the transport network -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing -- How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers

7 days ago

What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? -- Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand

7 days ago

Building the future-ready datacentre -- Tomorrow's datacentre won't be like yesterday's. Here's why.

7 days ago

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots -- This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue -- Jensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch - Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year - Networks - 22 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers -- Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade

1 day ago

PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt -- After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard

15 hours ago

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings -- Describes its LLMs as an 'entity' that probably has something like emotions

19 hours ago

Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra -- Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues

9 hours ago

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale -- Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up

15 hours ago

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark -- On Call -- Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory

11 hours ago

Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud -- Hands On -- There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more

16 hours ago

FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft -- Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches

11 hours ago

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls -- Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row

6 hours ago

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day -- The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover

1 hour ago

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild -- Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality -- Security

2 days ago

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte -- Business transformation, but not much remuneration -- AI + ML

2 days ago

MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time -- From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next -- Science

2 days ago

From AI Ambition to AI Production: Escaping the AI Pilot Trap - Everyone wants AI, but the pilots won't land because the runway was never built - Partner Content

4 days ago

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass -- Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam - updated - Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords - Cyber-crime - 21 Jan 2026 - | 20

20 hours ago

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice' -- Also at Davos, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang pitches AI five-layer cake -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings -- Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings -- Public Sector

2 days ago

ESA puts ExoMars lander through its paces with eye on 2028 launch -- After Russia drama and NASA's on-again-off-again romance, rover shows it still has legs... four of them -- Offbeat

2 days ago

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities -- AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration - Opinion - Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act? AI + ML - 21 Jan 2026 - | 86

14 hours ago

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data -- Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble -- Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially -- Offbeat

2 days ago

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years -- Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others -- Networks

2 days ago

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court -- Artist formerly known as Facebook can't escape the legal-verse -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages -- Its very own Snooper's Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion -- Security

2 days ago