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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

4 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

1 hour 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

7 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

4 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 - 23 Jan 2026 - |

34 minutes 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

59 minutes ago

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

2 hours ago

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

4 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 - | 11

45 minutes 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

5 hours ago

NASA planet hunter resumes operations after low power incident - Pointing problem left TESS in the dark - Science - 23 Jan 2026 - |

4 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

6 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

6 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

9 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

4 hours ago

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

10 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

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

11 hours ago

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

12 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

12 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

11 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

13 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

20 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 -- Systems

21 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 -- Systems

21 hours ago

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

12 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns

20 hours 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

4 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

10 hours ago

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

1 day 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

Storage news ticker – 23 January

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OpenDrives appoints new CEO amid shift to video software

8 hours ago

ExaGrid launches all-flash backup appliances

9 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

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

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

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

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

1 day 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

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

7 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

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

1 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 + ML

1 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

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

21 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

9 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

12 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

9 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

10 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

3 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

5 hours ago

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

9 hours ago

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

5 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

4 hours 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

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

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

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

13 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

7 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

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

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