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)

Flush with cash, SK hynix spawns mysteriously named 'AI Co.'

(2026/01/28)

Memory boom funds $10B punt on 'solutions' outfit that's still light on details



Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

(2026/01/28)

How a cold morning, failed O-rings, and flawed decision-making led to tragedy



Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination

(2026/01/28)

Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened



Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

(2026/01/28)

Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature



Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation

(2026/01/28)

Opinion If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points



Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing

(2026/01/28)

Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework



How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies

(2026/01/28)

Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up



Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week

(2026/01/28)

But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud



Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden

(2026/01/28)

Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time



UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die

(2026/01/28)

Updated AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline



Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir

(2026/01/28)

'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside



ATM flashes a port or two for the enterprising hacker

(2026/01/28)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Connection secured. Not so sure about the installation



Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

(2026/01/27)

Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust



ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you

(2026/01/27)

Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents



Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google

(2026/01/27)

Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people



Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

(2026/01/27)

Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO



Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11

(2026/01/27)

An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows



Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

(2026/01/27)

The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it



European firms push on with AI pilots even as payoff doubts grow

(2026/01/27)

IDC and Lenovo say enterprises are pressing ahead with pilot deployments despite mixed evidence on returns



Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore

(2026/01/27)

No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028



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An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.