Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army (2026/01/27) Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later
Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI (2026/01/27) Vicar of Rome decries naive and unquestioning reliance on technology
China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers' aides – for years (2026/01/27) Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk
Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation (2026/01/27) GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings
NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space (2026/01/27) Communication attempts ongoing for stricken spacecraft
France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative (2026/01/27) French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before?
Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era (2026/01/27) Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases
Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort (2026/01/27) RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds (2026/01/27) Updated Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case
High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep (2026/01/27) Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law
NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter (2026/01/27) In space, no one can hear you bork
'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour (2026/01/27) Feature Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways
Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch (2026/01/27) Updated Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes.
Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan (2026/01/27) 40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly
Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever (2026/01/27) Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock
Crossrail? More like Borkrail... (2026/01/27) Bork!Bork!Bork! A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork
Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source (2026/01/27) Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers
AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen (2026/01/27) The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it
Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign (2026/01/26) Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets
How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C (2026/01/26) feature Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI