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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 - Systems - 12 Jan 2026 - | 17

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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'

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

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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'

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

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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 - 12 Jan 2026 - |

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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

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

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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

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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 -- OSes

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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 - | 11

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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

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

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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause - Who, Me? UPSes don't work without power, or well-designed electricals - Storage - 12 Jan 2026 - | 48

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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' -- Legal

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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 -- Security

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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

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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! -- Legal

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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 -- Security

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AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them - Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power - AI + ML - 11 Jan 2026 - | 27

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

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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 - | 30

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

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

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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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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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 - |

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

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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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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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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

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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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 20

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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

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Nvidia's basic context memory extension infrastructure

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Backup that flexes to counter rising ransomware risks

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Storage News Ticker – 9 January

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Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes

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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

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

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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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 106

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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

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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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 18

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

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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

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Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book -- Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails -- AI + ML

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Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete -- Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling -- SaaS

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While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 -- Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away -- Storage

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As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security -- Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely... -- Security

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ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor -- It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers -- AI + ML

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Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders - Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter - Systems - 08 Jan 2026 - |

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Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off -- Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox -- AI + ML

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Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit -- No reports of active exploitation ... yet -- Patches

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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' -- OSes

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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.

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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

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Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins -- One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power -- On-Prem

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ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady -- NASA mulling options, including an early trip home -- Science

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Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead -- Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it -- Cyber-crime

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Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over -- Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms -- Networks

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CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw -- Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago -- Cyber-crime

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AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops -- Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists -- OSes

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UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos -- Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses -- AI + ML

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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

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Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server -- Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full control -- Patches

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OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering -- Happy Groundhog Day! -- Research

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Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware - Interview - They also hallucinate when writing ransomware code - AI + ML - 08 Jan 2026 - | 12

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Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first -- Synthetic cephalopod skin could be used in architecture and computer displays as well as background-matching subterfuge -- Science

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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 - | 20

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