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GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - Opinion - Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' OSes - 07 Jan 2026 - | 102

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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

What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work

1 day ago

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs

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GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - Opinion - Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'

12 hours ago

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations -- Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid

15 hours ago

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate -- Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time -- Patches

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Cloudflare pours cold water on 'BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela' theory -- Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action -- Networks

3 hours ago

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far -- AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch -- Systems

11 hours ago

IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show -- Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails -- Security

11 hours ago

New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom -- Maybe our AI overlords, hell-bent on securing power any way they can, should invest in getting this to market -- Science

12 hours ago

British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture -- Let the co-opetition commence -- AI + ML

12 hours ago

SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs -- NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner -- Storage

13 hours ago

ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open - exclusive - Two weeks, two major data leaks ... not a good look for the European Space Agency - Cyber-crime - 07 Jan 2026 - | 9

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Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses -- pcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this year -- Cyber-crime

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FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s -- RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves ahead -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown -- Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps up -- Science

16 hours ago

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs -- Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead? -- Systems

17 hours ago

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention - An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter

1 day ago

Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul -- Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients -- Security

17 hours ago

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 -- Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year -- On-Prem

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Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions -- Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal -- Public Sector

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Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack -- Updated -- High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted -- Cyber-crime

18 hours ago

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath -- Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue -- Offbeat

23 hours ago

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations -- Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid -- Security

23 hours ago

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go -- Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems -- Public Sector

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Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll -- The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon's internals for easier repairs -- Personal Tech

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Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires -- Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger -- AI + ML

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

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AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute

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Nvidia's Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch

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Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia

15 days ago

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching - It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse

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HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher -- Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed -- Security

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Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini - Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice - AI + ML - 06 Jan 2026 - |

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Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint -- Have your privacy cake and consume the web too -- Applications

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Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production - CES 2026 - Atlas will be deployed to Hyundai and Google facilities this year - AI + ML - 06 Jan 2026 - | 21

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Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale - Crimson Collective claims 'sophisticated attack' Cyber-crime - 06 Jan 2026 - |

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Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested -- Neat idea, but with no mention of a dev kit it's another sign of Lego's descent into designing nothing but fun on rails -- Offbeat

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What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work -- OSes

1 day ago

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

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

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Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

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Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

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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

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StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out -- New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data -- Applications

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No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric - AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house - Databases - 06 Jan 2026 - |

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Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike -- Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold -- Systems

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Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison's edge inferencing SW

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WD Black and Blue replaced by Sandisk Optimus branding

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Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs

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Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs

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Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware -- Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls -- Research

1 day ago

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one -- Also: The XPS brand is back -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science -- Fate of Shuttle Discovery remains conspicuously unaddressed in FY2026 agreement text -- Science

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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

6 days ago

Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu -- Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun -- Cyber-crime

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UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow -- Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure -- PaaS + IaaS

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Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs -- AI + ML

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Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT -- Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton -- Cyber-crime

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UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd -- Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals -- Public Sector

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AI's grand promise: Less drudgery, more complexity, same (or lower) pay -- Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI -- AI + ML

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One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on -- Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials -- Cyber-crime

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Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks -- Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant -- Systems

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AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched -- New chips same as the old chips -- Systems

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Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process -- Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet -- Personal Tech

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Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark's performance since launch -- Just maybe not in the way you're thinking -- Systems

2 days ago

Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES -- Teasing the next generation earlier than usual -- Systems

2 days ago

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

1 month 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

Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus -- Holiday hangover? -- AI + ML

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ServiceNow snags Microsoft vet to run legal amid M&A spree - Hossein Nowbar waged antitrust battles and created new legal policies around AI for Redmond - SaaS - 05 Jan 2026 - |

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ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money -- One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity -- AI + ML

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Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot -- A subpoena has been issued, apparently -- Security

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Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up - CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. Security - 05 Jan 2026 - |

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Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer -- With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX's move looks more like politics than philanthropy -- Off-Prem

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Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips -- Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far -- Systems

2 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

19 days ago

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them -- US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes -- Legal

2 days ago

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more -- Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does -- OSes

2 days ago

UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help -- Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps -- Public Sector

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Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes - Exclusive - Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works - Public Sector - 05 Jan 2026 - | 66

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New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack - Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients - Cyber-crime - 05 Jan 2026 - | 6

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Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it -- Opinion -- From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance -- Edge + IoT

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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble -- Who, Me? -- Meet the 'Mean Avenger', the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don't defend their team -- Software

3 days ago

Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions -- infosec in brief -- Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more -- Security

3 days ago

Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat - interview - Lock 'em down - Security - 04 Jan 2026 - | 22

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Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot -- Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection -- AI + ML

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Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it -- Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency -- AI + ML

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Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025 -- But how about some smart glasses instead? -- Personal Tech

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