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)

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

(2026/01/12)

No wonder he's going nuclear



Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

(2026/01/12)

Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows



Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini

(2026/01/12)

Partnership between behemoths raises questions about OpenAI's place at the iTable



Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs

(2026/01/12)

If penicillin was discovered on moldy bread, who's to say the next miracle drug won't be born from AI hallucinations



PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory

(2026/01/12)

High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting



Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag

(2026/01/12)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Digital signage is great, until it isn't



Businesses in 2026: Maybe we should finally look into that AI security stuff

(2026/01/12)

Survey finds security checks nearly doubled in a year as leaders wise up



Don’t bother with the retailer’s website, says Google: Gemini can shop for you

(2026/01/12)

You can check out anytime you like, but please don’t ever leave



IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship

(2026/01/12)

Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig



Block CISO: We red-teamed our own AI agent to run an infostealer on an employee laptop

(2026/01/12)

exclusive Agents must be 'safer and better than humans,' James Nettesheim tells The Reg



Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit

(2026/01/12)

Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform



Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data

(2026/01/12)

AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin



ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness

(2026/01/12)

Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed



Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

(2026/01/12)

Yes, you can get rid of it – assuming nobody's looked at it in 28 days



Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users

(2026/01/12)

Updated Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own



The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

(2026/01/12)

Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware



Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

(2026/01/12)

Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response



How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom

(2026/01/12)

A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant



Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal

(2026/01/12)

Bork!Bork!Bork! 'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused'



Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools

(2026/01/12)

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health



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And do you not think that each of you women is an Eve? The judgement of God
upon your sex endures today; and with it invariably endures your position of
criminal at the bar of justice.
-- Tertullian, second-century Christian writer, misogynist