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Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military’s Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it

(2026/02/01)

Armored vehicle trials halted after troops report noise and vibration symptoms



NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan

(2026/01/31)

Is there life on Mars? Well, there's Claude in the machine



Broadcom 'bulldozes' VMware cloud partners as March deadline looms

(2026/01/31)

exclusive Many European CSPs are being cut loose, sources say, forcing customer transitions



January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days

(2026/01/30)

Consider yourselves compromised, experts warn



'Hey! I’m chatting here!’ Fugazi answers doom NYC’s AI bot

(2026/01/30)

Lying means dying



Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups

(2026/01/30)

Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion



Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach

(2026/01/30)

Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits



Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers

(2026/01/30)

Fewer humans, more bots - just in time for filing season



Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks

(2026/01/30)

The western US saw the most activity overall



Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers

(2026/01/30)

Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it



Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

(2026/01/30)

AI vision systems can be very literal readers



Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please

(2026/01/30)

Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks



OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it

(2026/01/30)

GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered



Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls

(2026/01/30)

Stock management also important, says Mitchell Hashimoto



Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

(2026/01/30)

Opinion Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you



BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

(2026/01/30)

Episode 2 The Boss has been on a retreat, which means he needs a factory reset ASAP



Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones

(2026/01/30)

Bark!Bark!Bark! Spot's new cleanup gig involves gamma rays, alpha particles, and considerably less PPE than fleshy colleagues



NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

(2026/01/30)

£1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot



In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

(2026/01/30)

On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it



Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols

(2026/01/30)

Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols



Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

(2026/01/30)

BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves



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