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Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine - Bork!Bork!Bork! When the operating system is older than the transport network - Offbeat - 22 Jan 2026 - | 6

8 minutes 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 - | 57

8 minutes ago

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive -- January update is the gift that keeps on giving

11 hours ago

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop -- Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming 'silly' ones

11 hours ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge -- PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

1 day 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?

11 hours ago

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

25 minutes ago

Anthropic writes Constitution for Claude it thinks will soon be proven 'misguided' -- Describes its LLMs as an 'entity' that probably has something like emotions -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

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

5 hours 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

9 hours 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 - |

6 hours ago

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

9 hours ago

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

11 hours 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

12 hours 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

12 hours ago

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

14 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

15 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

11 hours ago

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

15 hours 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

16 hours ago

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

16 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

17 hours ago

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

19 hours 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

19 hours 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

19 hours ago

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive -- January update is the gift that keeps on giving -- Storage

20 hours ago

Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture -- Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice -- Security

20 hours ago

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

12 hours ago

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

5 days ago

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

5 days ago

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

6 days ago

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control - Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off

11 hours ago

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it -- Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems -- Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help -- OSes

21 hours ago

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire -- Open Rights Group says plans would create serious privacy risks -- Public Sector

22 hours ago

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue -- Behold the cardboard ENIAC -- On-Prem

23 hours ago

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking - Bork!Bork!Bork! But who is paying to keep the lights on? Offbeat - 21 Jan 2026 - | 20

4 hours ago

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China's TCL -- Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

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

18 hours ago

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

1 day ago

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

2 days ago

Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

6 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

25 minutes ago

OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy -- Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers -- ACME validation had a challenge-request hole -- Patches

1 day ago

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea -- This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right? -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID

19 hours ago

Komprise's response to SSD shortages and delivery slowdowns

19 hours ago

Dell plans single global IT stack to replace decades of internal sprawl

1 day ago

Quobyte's quiet performance and scale superiority

1 day ago

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility -- Sure it's a bubble and the deals are circular - that doesn't mean Amazon's not going to try to extract value from it -- AI + ML

1 day ago

AI researchers map models to banish 'demon' persona -- Keeping models on the Assistant Axis improves AI safety -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly -- More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser -- OSes

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is -- Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035 -- On-Prem

1 day ago

OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it -- And the world economy might depend on it finding an answer -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle -- Corporate IT refreshed hardware to stay supported, not chase new features -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Global economy shrugs off US tariff shock, tech spending does heavy lifting -- Wave of American-imposed tariffs failed to derail global growth, according to the IMF -- AI + ML

1 day ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

Manchester ATM ups PIN requirement to full Windows login - Bork!Bork!Bork! Definitely Maybe running Windows 7? Offbeat - 20 Jan 2026 - | 23

19 hours ago

MPs ask who's responsible when AI crashes the UK finance system -- Committee says watchdogs lack urgency as accountability for automated decisions remains unresolved -- AI + ML

1 day ago

England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director -- Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team -- Public Sector

1 day ago

£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again -- Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge -- PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

1 day 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

16 hours ago

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop -- Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming 'silly' ones

16 hours ago

Microsoft veteran explains the one weird trick that made Windows 95 restart faster -- Hold down Shift to make the magic happen (or not, as the case might be)

19 hours ago

Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution -- Prompt injection for the win

19 hours ago

Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it -- AI + skilled malware developers = security threat

17 hours ago

For the price of Netflix, crooks can now rent AI to run cybercrime -- Group-IB says crims forking out for Dark LLMs, deepfakes, and more at subscription prices

8 hours ago

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike -- Mailbox costs leap overnight as longtime users vent their frustration

18 hours ago

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover -- Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP

4 hours ago

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say -- Still or sparkling? Either way, the problem of scale remains

2 hours ago

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads -- Labels Zuck's ad library 'a window into criminality' and the Social Network as 'happy to turn a blind eye' -- Legal

2 days ago

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone - Interview - OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech - Legal - 20 Jan 2026 - | 12

1 day ago

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase -- Taiwan's Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion -- Systems

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

2 days ago

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake -- 7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next -- Databases

2 days ago

Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing -- Feras Albashiti faces 10 years after $20,000 in sales to undercover agent exposed ransomware ties -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking -- Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox -- Software

2 days ago

NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket arrives at the launch pad -- If it all goes wrong, British kids of the '80s might remember an alternative -- Science

2 days ago

Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins -- Mobile application management updates mean apps could soon be blocked -- Applications

2 days ago

Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK's cyber crew -- They're not the most sophisticated, but even simple attacks can lead to costly consequences -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination -- Craig Guildford banned Israeli fans based on Microsoft's match report, told MPs 'we don't use AI,' then discovers... they did -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records - Maine filing confirms July attack affected 42,521 employees and job applicants - Cyber-crime - 19 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids -- Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT -- Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs -- Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight -- Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines -- Public Sector

2 days ago