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)

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

(2026/01/15)

Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.



Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2

(2026/01/15)

40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this?



Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS

(2026/01/15)

Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud



Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix

(2026/01/15)

Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine



Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die

(2026/01/15)

ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment



AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

(2026/01/15)

EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands



Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

(2026/01/15)

Exclusive Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell



China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

(2026/01/15)

Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy



AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics

(2026/01/15)

Interview Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back



Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute

(2026/01/15)

Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance



CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage

(2026/01/14)

Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again



Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

(2026/01/14)

But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says



New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes

(2026/01/14)

Cloud-native, 37 plugins … an attacker's dream



Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

(2026/01/14)

Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume



There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

(2026/01/14)

Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells Congress



France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach

(2026/01/14)

Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits



Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version

(2026/01/14)

Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006



'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work

(2026/01/14)

New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defenses



AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

(2026/01/14)

Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please



Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

(2026/01/14)

Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks



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