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Tuesday, January 13, 2026 12:16 PM ET

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The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age -- Opinion -- Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware

23 hours ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause -- Who, Me? -- UPSes don't work without power, or well-designed electricals

23 hours ago

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows - Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism

16 minutes ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

1 month ago

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine -- Labels Rome's comms regulator 'a quasi-judicial body' that works on behalf of 'shadowy, European media cabal'

1 day ago

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030 -- AI-pocalypse -- Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse -- AI + ML

26 minutes ago

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades -- Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support -- On-Prem -- 13 Jan 2026

26 minutes ago

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow -- The Emperor Penguin has a go... just for fun -- AI + ML -- 13 Jan 2026

26 minutes ago

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam -- 33-year-old was under surveillance for some time before returning home from the UAE -- Legal -- 13 Jan 2026

26 minutes ago

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar -- Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds -- On-Prem

3 hours ago

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list -- Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops -- Security

4 hours ago

Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs -- AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers -- SaaS

4 hours ago

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware -- Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats -- Cyber-crime

4 hours ago

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data - Updated - Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson - Offbeat - 13 Jan 2026 - | 17

43 minutes ago

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board -- Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster -- Databases

6 hours ago

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back -- Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott -- Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech - Remember when government agents didn't wear masks?

23 hours ago

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows -- Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism -- OSes

10 hours ago

Lenovo has a hunch you're about to try quitting VMware -- Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them -- Virtualization

10 hours ago

India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they're real -- Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds -- Public Sector

14 hours ago

No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher -- In SEC filings, Fortinet and Palo Alto show shrinking product margins taking hold. -- Security

18 hours ago

'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway -- Gang members 'systematically exploited children and young people,' cops say -- Cyber-crime

18 hours ago

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters -- No wonder he's going nuclear -- Off-Prem

19 hours ago

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote -- Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old's favorite shows -- Offbeat

19 hours ago

Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini -- Partnership between behemoths raises questions about OpenAI's place at the iTable -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs -- If penicillin was discovered on moldy bread, who's to say the next miracle drug won't be born from AI hallucinations -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory -- High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting -- Systems

22 hours ago

Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag - Bork!Bork!Bork! Digital signage is great, until it isn't - Offbeat - 12 Jan 2026 - | 10

8 hours ago

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

3 days ago

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs

4 days ago

D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy

5 days ago

AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute

7 days ago

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind - 'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'

23 hours ago

Businesses in 2026: Maybe we should finally look into that AI security stuff - Survey finds security checks nearly doubled in a year as leaders wise up - AI + ML - 12 Jan 2026 - |

22 hours ago

Don't bother with the retailer's website, says Google: Gemini can shop for you -- You can check out anytime you like, but please don't ever leave -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship -- Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig -- Software

23 hours ago

Block CISO: We red-teamed our own AI agent to run an infostealer on an employee laptop - exclusive - Agents must be 'safer and better than humans,' James Nettesheim tells The Reg - Security - 12 Jan 2026 - | 1

18 hours ago

Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data -- AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin -- AI + ML

1 day ago

ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness -- Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed -- Science

1 day ago

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

8 hours ago

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

5 days ago

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

6 days ago

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

7 days ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post

7 days ago

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins - Yes, you can get rid of it – assuming nobody's looked at it in 28 days - AI + ML - 12 Jan 2026 - | 31

26 minutes ago

PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power

26 minutes ago

Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage

1 hour ago

VAST Data's Flash Reclaim attacks competitors' installed bases

2 hours ago

ExaGrid logs record Q4 as customer and booking growth continue

4 hours ago

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on -- Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal - Bork!Bork!Bork! 'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused' Offbeat - 12 Jan 2026 - | 17

5 hours ago

Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action - How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster - Sponsored Post

11 days ago

Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools -- Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them -- exclusive -- Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech -- Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence -- Software

2 days ago

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence - ANALYSIS - Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation - Cyber-crime - 10 Jan 2026 - | 38

7 hours ago

Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers -- Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations -- HPC

3 days ago

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment -- Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much -- Applications

3 days ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

2 months ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

2 months ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

2 months ago

Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway -- Developer survey from Sonar finds AI tool adoption has created a verification bottleneck -- AI + ML

3 days ago

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more -- There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals -- New nuclear capacity won't show up until around 2030 -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else -- OSes

4 days ago

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine -- Labels Rome's comms regulator 'a quasi-judicial body' that works on behalf of 'shadowy, European media cabal'

1 day ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause -- Who, Me? -- UPSes don't work without power, or well-designed electricals

1 day ago

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut -- Asia in Brief -- PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic's noodle shop plan; And more!

1 day ago

Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak -- infosec in brief -- PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more

1 day ago

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age -- Opinion -- Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware

1 day ago

Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit -- Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform

11 hours ago

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom -- A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant

1 day ago

Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users -- Updated -- Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own

7 hours ago

India's government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code -- Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors

1 day ago

2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals -- A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins

1 day ago

Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher -- Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies -- State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers -- OSes

4 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 - Sponsored Feature

25 days ago

NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare -- Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed -- Science

4 days ago

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more -- Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping -- On-Prem

4 days ago

China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure - Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild - Virtualization - 09 Jan 2026 - |

4 days ago

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders - Opinion - The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused - Software - 09 Jan 2026 - | 42

26 minutes ago

Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars -- Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats -- Science

4 days ago

Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error - Bork!Bork!Bork! The queue might move on, but the software never did - Offbeat - 09 Jan 2026 - | 16

1 day ago

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' -- Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on -- Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts -- Databases

4 days ago

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem -- On Call -- As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again -- Security

4 days ago

Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 -- Opinion -- Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Iran's internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response -- Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too -- Networks

4 days ago

China to probe Meta's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card -- AI + ML

4 days ago