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UK trade department put civil servants' feelings first during Windows 11 migration -- Is that the cloud? No, it's joss sticks wafting through Whitehall -- Offbeat

2 minutes 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

17 hours ago

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

17 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

1 hour ago

PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt -- After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard

1 hour ago

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start -- Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% -- Public Sector

52 minutes 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 - Personal Tech - 23 Jan 2026 - | 6

11 minutes 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

7 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

8 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

9 hours ago

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

11 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 - 22 Jan 2026 - | 9

11 minutes 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

12 hours ago

Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance -- The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants -- Personal Tech

13 hours ago

Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails -- Logging in, not breaking in -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption -- Dentists least likely to get an LLM kick in the teeth -- AI + ML

15 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

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 - | 16

11 minutes ago

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

16 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 -- OSes

16 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 -- AI + ML

18 hours ago

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

18 hours 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

20 hours 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

20 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 -- OSes

20 hours 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

20 hours 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

20 hours ago

Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns

7 hours ago

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge "SkyHammer" Scale Up Fabric Switch

1 day ago

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

6 days ago

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

6 days ago

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control - Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off

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

22 hours 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

22 hours 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

23 hours 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

23 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 -- OSes

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

20 hours ago

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight -- Program will train just 20 people per year -- Public Sector

1 day ago

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

18 hours ago

LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

1 day ago

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'

2 days ago

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

3 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

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine - Bork!Bork!Bork! When the operating system is older than the transport network - Offbeat - 22 Jan 2026 - | 21

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eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots -- This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers

19 hours ago

Hammerspace appoints new sales head

20 hours ago

Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

20 hours ago

Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID

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

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

1 day ago

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? Do TOPS trump everything else? Sponsored Feature

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings -- Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings -- Public Sector

1 day 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

1 day ago

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities -- AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash -- AI + ML

1 day ago

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

6 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

6 days ago

What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? -- Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand

6 days ago

Building the future-ready datacentre -- Tomorrow's datacentre won't be like yesterday's. Here's why.

6 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

1 day ago

Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture -- Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice -- Security

1 day 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

1 day ago

Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam -- Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords

21 hours ago

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

9 hours ago

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte -- Business transformation, but not much remuneration

13 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

19 hours ago

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years -- Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others

15 hours ago

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

18 hours ago

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration -- Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?

12 hours ago

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble -- Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially

11 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

11 minutes ago

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it -- Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says -- AI + ML

1 day ago

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems -- Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help -- OSes

1 day ago

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire -- Open Rights Group says plans would create serious privacy risks -- Public Sector

1 day 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

3 days ago

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue -- Behold the cardboard ENIAC -- On-Prem

2 days ago

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking - Bork!Bork!Bork! But who is paying to keep the lights on? Offbeat - 21 Jan 2026 - | 21

19 hours ago

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop -- Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming 'silly' ones -- Security

2 days ago

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China's TCL -- Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy -- Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers -- ACME validation had a challenge-request hole -- Patches

2 days ago

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea -- This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right? -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility -- Sure it's a bubble and the deals are circular - that doesn't mean Amazon's not going to try to extract value from it -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AI researchers map models to banish 'demon' persona -- Keeping models on the Assistant Axis improves AI safety -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly -- More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser -- OSes

2 days ago

Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it -- AI + skilled malware developers = security threat -- Security

2 days ago

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say -- Still or sparkling? Either way, the problem of scale remains -- Science

2 days ago