Monday, January 12, 2026 9:53 AM ET
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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'3 days ago
AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them -- Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power2 hours 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'2 hours ago
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech -- Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence5 hours 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 - 12 Jan 2026 - |18 minutes 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 + ML37 minutes ago
Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users -- Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own -- Cyber-crime1 hour 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 hour 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 -- OSes2 hours 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 - | 111 hour 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 Tech3 hours ago
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals -- A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins -- Software4 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 - Storage - 12 Jan 2026 - | 4818 minutes 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' -- Legal7 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 -- Security7 hours ago
What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 - It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work2 days 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! -- Legal13 hours 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 -- Security15 hours ago
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 - | 2718 minutes ago
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech -- Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence -- Software1 day 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 - | 301 hour ago
Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers -- Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations -- HPC2 days ago
Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment -- Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much -- Applications2 days ago
How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech -- Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? -- Security2 days 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 + ML2 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 -- Offbeat2 days ago
Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals -- New nuclear capacity won't show up until around 2030 -- PaaS + IaaS2 days ago
Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing2 days ago
Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs3 days ago
D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy4 days ago
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute6 days ago
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 controls2 days ago
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else -- OSes2 days 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-crime2 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-crime2 days ago
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers -- OSes2 days ago
NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare -- Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed -- Science3 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-Prem3 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 - |3 days ago
Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI4 days ago
Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers4 days ago
Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready5 days ago
Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help6 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 Post5 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 -- Software3 days 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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 201 day 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 -- Offbeat3 days ago
Nvidia's basic context memory extension infrastructure18 minutes ago
Backup that flexes to counter rising ransomware risks5 hours ago
Storage News Ticker – 9 January2 days ago
Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes2 days 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 + ML3 days ago
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on -- Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts -- Databases3 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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 1062 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 Post10 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 - 09 Jan 2026 - | 183 hours ago
Iran's internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response -- Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too -- Networks3 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 + ML3 days ago
Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book -- Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails -- AI + ML3 days ago
Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete -- Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling -- SaaS3 days ago
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 -- Storage3 days ago
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... -- Security3 days ago
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 + ML3 days ago
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 - |3 days ago
Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off -- Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox -- AI + ML3 days ago
Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit -- No reports of active exploitation ... yet -- Patches3 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' -- OSes3 days 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
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
Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins -- One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power -- On-Prem3 days ago
ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady -- NASA mulling options, including an early trip home -- Science3 days ago
Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead -- Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
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 -- Networks3 days ago
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-crime4 days ago
AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops -- Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists -- OSes4 days ago
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 + ML4 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 Feature23 days ago
Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server -- Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full control -- Patches4 days ago
OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering -- Happy Groundhog Day! -- Research4 days ago
Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware - Interview - They also hallucinate when writing ransomware code - AI + ML - 08 Jan 2026 - | 123 days ago
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 -- Science4 days ago
Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate -- Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time -- Patches4 days ago
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 -- Networks4 days 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 -- Systems4 days ago
IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show -- Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails -- Security4 days 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 -- Science4 days ago
British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture -- Let the co-opetition commence -- AI + ML4 days ago
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs -- NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner -- Storage4 days 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 - | 204 hours ago