Tuesday, January 13, 2026 12:16 PM ET
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 electricals23 hours ago
Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows - Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism16 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 + ML26 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 202626 minutes ago
Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow -- The Emperor Penguin has a go... just for fun -- AI + ML -- 13 Jan 202626 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 202626 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-Prem3 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 -- Security4 hours ago
Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs -- AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers -- SaaS4 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-crime4 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 - | 1743 minutes ago
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board -- Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster -- Databases6 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 Sector7 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 Sector7 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 -- OSes10 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 -- Virtualization10 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 Sector14 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. -- Security18 hours ago
'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway -- Gang members 'systematically exploited children and young people,' cops say -- Cyber-crime18 hours ago
Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters -- No wonder he's going nuclear -- Off-Prem19 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 -- Offbeat19 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 + ML21 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 + ML21 hours ago
PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory -- High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting -- Systems22 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 - | 108 hours ago
Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing3 days ago
Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs4 days ago
D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy5 days ago
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute7 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 + ML23 hours ago
IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship -- Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig -- Software23 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 - | 118 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 + ML1 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 -- Science1 day ago
Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI8 hours ago
Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI5 days ago
Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers6 days ago
Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready7 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 Post7 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 - | 3126 minutes ago
PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power26 minutes ago
Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage1 hour ago
VAST Data's Flash Reclaim attacks competitors' installed bases2 hours ago
ExaGrid logs record Q4 as customer and booking growth continue4 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 + ML1 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 - | 175 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 Post11 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 Tech1 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 + ML22 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 -- Software2 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 - | 387 hours ago
Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers -- Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations -- HPC3 days ago
Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment -- Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much -- Applications3 days ago
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation2 months ago
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption2 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 Nutanix2 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 + ML3 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 -- Offbeat3 days ago
Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals -- New nuclear capacity won't show up until around 2030 -- PaaS + IaaS3 days ago
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else -- OSes4 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 electricals1 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 more1 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 hardware1 day ago
Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit -- Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform11 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 dominant1 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 own7 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 vendors1 day ago
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals -- A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins1 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-crime4 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-crime4 days ago
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers -- OSes4 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 Feature25 days ago
NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare -- Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed -- Science4 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-Prem4 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 - | 4226 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 -- Science4 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 - | 161 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 + ML4 days ago
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on -- Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts -- Databases4 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 -- Security4 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 Tech4 days ago
Iran's internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response -- Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too -- Networks4 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 + ML4 days ago