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Claude Code's prying AIs read off-limits secret files -- Developers remain unsure how to prevent access to sensitive data -- AI + ML

5 minutes ago

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues -- The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

4 hours ago

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative -- French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before?

4 hours ago

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour - Feature - Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways

1 day ago

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses -- Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature

2 hours ago

Everybody is WinRAR phishing, dropping RATs as fast as lightning -- Russians, Chinese spies, run-of-the-mill crims ... -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries -- Redmond has pledged to be carbon-negative by 2030 -- Off-Prem

2 hours ago

Yes, you can build an AI agent - here's how, using LangFlow - Hands On - AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop - Agentic AI - 28 Jan 2026 - | 4

2 hours ago

Fortinet unearths another critical bug as SSO accounts borked post-patch -- More work for admins on the cards as they await a full dump of fixes -- Security

2 hours ago

AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production -- Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO -- Agentic AI

2 hours ago

Flush with cash, SK hynix spawns mysteriously named 'AI Co.' -- Memory boom funds $10B punt on 'solutions' outfit that's still light on details -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA -- How a cold morning, failed O-rings, and flawed decision-making led to tragedy -- Science

7 hours ago

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination -- Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses -- Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature -- Security

7 hours ago

Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation - Opinion - If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points - AI + ML - 28 Jan 2026 - | 15

48 minutes ago

Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing -- Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen - The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it

4 hours ago

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies - Feature - You can't cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up - Agentic AI - 28 Jan 2026 - | 1

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Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week -- But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud -- PaaS + IaaS

9 hours ago

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden -- Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die -- Updated -- AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline -- Public Sector

4 hours ago

Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir -- 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside -- Public Sector

11 hours ago

ATM flashes a port or two for the enterprising hacker -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Connection secured. Not so sure about the installation -- Offbeat

13 hours ago

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle -- Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust -- Security

23 hours ago

ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you -- Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents -- Public Sector

23 hours ago

Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google -- Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people -- Legal

1 day ago

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim -- Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11 -- An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Microsoft Takes On Other Clouds With "Braga" Maia 200 AI Compute Engines

15 hours ago

Nvidia's $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket

1 day ago

Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting

2 days ago

AI Is Coming To Solve Your System Outages

2 days ago

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C - feature - Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI

4 hours ago

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues -- The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

European firms push on with AI pilots even as payoff doubts grow -- IDC and Lenovo say enterprises are pressing ahead with pilot deployments despite mixed evidence on returns -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore -- No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028 -- Systems

1 day ago

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army -- Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI -- Vicar of Rome decries naive and unquestioning reliance on technology -- Offbeat

1 day ago

China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers' aides – for years -- Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation -- GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings -- AI + ML

1 day ago

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'

3 hours ago

WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

12 hours ago

Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

2 days ago

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

6 days ago

AI is coming to solve your system outages - The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be? Sponsored Feature

2 days ago

NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space -- Communication attempts ongoing for stricken spacecraft -- Science

1 day ago

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative -- French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? -- Software

1 day ago

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era -- Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases -- OSes

1 day ago

High-bandwidth memory v4 supply takes shape

7 hours ago

SK Hynix posts record year as HBM boom supercharges profits

4 hours ago

Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges

5 hours ago

SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle

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Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort - RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure - HPC - 27 Jan 2026 - |

1 day ago

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds - Updated - Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case - Applications - 27 Jan 2026 - | 17

8 hours ago

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep - Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law - Security - 27 Jan 2026 - | 28

8 hours ago

Red Teaming for AI: The Cornerstone of Secure Compliance - The best way to keep your AI on the regulators' right side is to try and break it - Partner Content

2 days ago

NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter -- In space, no one can hear you bork

8 hours ago

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour -- Feature -- Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch -- Updated -- Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes. -- Security

10 hours ago

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan -- 40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly

8 hours ago

Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever -- Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

Crossrail? More like Borkrail... Bork!Bork!Bork! A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork - Offbeat - 27 Jan 2026 - | 19

11 hours ago

Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source -- Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign -- Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power -- Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims -- Systems

2 days ago

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day - updated - Winter storms bring Oracle datacenter down - SaaS - 26 Jan 2026 - | 21

10 hours ago

Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps -- An official Model Context Protocol extension -- Agentic AI

2 days ago

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE -- But CEOs remain frozen in place -- Public Sector

2 days ago

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

12 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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup -- Points to a use-case problem -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity -- Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong -- Agentic AI

2 days ago

Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself -- Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages -- Networks

2 days ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd -- Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work -- OSes

2 days ago

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy -- Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler -- The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued -- Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI -- Agentic AI

2 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

6 days ago

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images -- Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB -- US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates -- Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation -- OSes

2 days ago

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype - Opinion - Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter - Agentic AI - 26 Jan 2026 - | 37

2 hours ago

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland's power grid, experts say -- Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small - Opinion - Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web - Software - 26 Jan 2026 - | 23

11 hours ago

Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update -- 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management -- Storage

2 days ago

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit -- Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea -- AI + ML

2 days ago

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card - Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification - Public Sector - 26 Jan 2026 - | 82

1 day ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam -- Who, Me? -- This story starts with the worst mistake of them all – loaning a tool -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 uncovers 76 zero-days, pays out more than $1M -- infosec in brief -- Also, cybercriminals get breached, Gemini spills the calendar beans, and more -- Security

2 days ago

No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming -- feature -- Balancing the need to know with the need to get shovels in the ground is causing friction in communities across the US -- Off-Prem

2 days ago