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