ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

(2026/01/19)

Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment



Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT

(2026/01/19)

Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out



Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

(2026/01/19)

Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much



Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

(2026/01/19)

Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines



Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

(2026/01/19)

Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that



ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

(2026/01/19)

Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip



Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact

(2026/01/19)

Revenue growth is sluggish, too



Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters

(2026/01/19)

Asia In Brief PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more!



Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol

(2026/01/19)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Navy spy sent to brig for 200 months; Black Axe busted again; Bill aims to crimp ICE apps; and more



Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

(2026/01/18)

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.



Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

(2026/01/18)

'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast



Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

(2026/01/17)

Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable



S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

(2026/01/17)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots



Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

(2026/01/17)

Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow



Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

(2026/01/17)

It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction



Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

(2026/01/17)

Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself?



Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

(2026/01/16)

Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12



Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

(2026/01/16)

Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug



Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in

(2026/01/16)

First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options



Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

(2026/01/16)

Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons



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