Friday, January 23, 2026 5:32 AM ET
2 minutes 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 emotions17 hours ago
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers -- Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade17 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 up1 hour ago
PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt -- After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard1 hour ago
Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start -- Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% -- Public Sector52 minutes 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 - Personal Tech - 23 Jan 2026 - | 611 minutes 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 -- SaaS7 hours 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 -- Systems8 hours ago
Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client -- Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects -- Systems9 hours ago
Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams -- Teach a crook to phish... -- Cyber-crime11 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 - 22 Jan 2026 - | 911 minutes 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 + ML12 hours ago
Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance -- The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants -- Personal Tech13 hours ago
Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails -- Logging in, not breaking in -- Cyber-crime13 hours ago
Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption -- Dentists least likely to get an LLM kick in the teeth -- AI + ML15 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 slip1 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 - | 1611 minutes ago
Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains -- Beleaguered country, unfortunately, has plenty of data from its conflict -- AI + ML16 hours ago
PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt -- After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard -- OSes16 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 -- AI + ML18 hours ago
FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft -- Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches -- Cyber-crime18 hours 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 + IaaS20 hours 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 -- Networks20 hours 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 -- OSes20 hours 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 -- Security20 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 -- Security20 hours ago
Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns7 hours ago
Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge "SkyHammer" Scale Up Fabric Switch1 day ago
Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?6 days ago
TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers6 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 off1 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 Sector22 hours 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 + ML22 hours 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 -- Science23 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 -- Networks23 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 -- OSes1 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 -- Databases20 hours ago
British Army's drone degree program set to take flight -- Program will train just 20 people per year -- Public Sector1 day ago
VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code18 hours ago
LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions1 day ago
Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'2 days ago
jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 20163 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 Content1 day ago
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 - | 2111 minutes ago
eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots -- This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar -- AI + ML1 day ago
Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers19 hours ago
Hammerspace appoints new sales head20 hours ago
Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 202820 hours ago
Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID1 day 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 + ML1 day 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 - |1 day ago
Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild -- Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality -- Security1 day ago
What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? Do TOPS trump everything else? Sponsored Feature2 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 -- Science1 day 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 Sector1 day 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 + ML1 day ago
Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings -- Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings -- Public Sector1 day 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 -- Offbeat1 day ago
We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities -- AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash -- AI + ML1 day ago
The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security -- Scanning the future6 days ago
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing -- How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers6 days ago
What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? -- Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand6 days ago
Building the future-ready datacentre -- Tomorrow's datacentre won't be like yesterday's. Here's why.6 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 Tech1 day ago
Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture -- Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice -- Security1 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 expansion1 day ago
Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam -- Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords21 hours ago
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers -- Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade9 hours ago
AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte -- Business transformation, but not much remuneration13 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 silent19 hours ago
EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years -- Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others15 hours ago
Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive -- January update is the gift that keeps on giving18 hours ago
Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration -- Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?12 hours ago
Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble -- Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially11 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 emotions11 minutes 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 + ML1 day ago
MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems -- Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help -- OSes1 day 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 Sector1 day 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 Content3 days ago
Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue -- Behold the cardboard ENIAC -- On-Prem2 days 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 - | 2119 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 -- Security2 days 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 Tech2 days 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 + ML2 days ago
Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers -- ACME validation had a challenge-request hole -- Patches2 days 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 + ML2 days 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 + ML2 days ago
AI researchers map models to banish 'demon' persona -- Keeping models on the Assistant Axis improves AI safety -- AI + ML2 days ago
Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly -- More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser -- OSes2 days ago
Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it -- AI + skilled malware developers = security threat -- Security2 days 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 -- Science2 days ago