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)

An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together

(2026/01/16)

You can't park there, mate



Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

(2026/01/16)

On Call How not to maintain computers



Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created

(2026/01/16)

Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot



TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years

(2026/01/16)

2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises



OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman

(2026/01/16)

Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body



Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks

(2026/01/16)

This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins



Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon

(2026/01/16)

You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink



Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

(2026/01/16)

The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases



Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

(2026/01/15)

What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see



Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln

(2026/01/15)

Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required



Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

(2026/01/15)

Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.



Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork

(2026/01/15)

Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that



OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

(2026/01/15)

SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation



Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

(2026/01/15)

The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in



A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

(2026/01/15)

And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg



Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise

(2026/01/15)

When margins are this tight, mergers might follow



Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year

(2026/01/15)

January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication



Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans

(2026/01/15)

Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications



US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

(2026/01/15)

Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums



Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach

(2026/01/15)

Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice



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