Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day (2026/01/22) The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover
Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud (2026/01/22) Hands On There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more
SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition (2026/01/22) Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC
British Army's drone degree program set to take flight (2026/01/22) Program will train just 20 people per year
Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine (2026/01/22) Bork!Bork!Bork! When the operating system is older than the transport network
Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings (2026/01/22) Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions
eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots (2026/01/22) This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar
Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue (2026/01/22) Jensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later
AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch (2026/01/22) Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild (2026/01/22) Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality
AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte (2026/01/21) Business transformation, but not much remuneration
MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time (2026/01/21) From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next
House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass (2026/01/21) Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it
Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam (2026/01/21) updated Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords
Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice' (2026/01/21) Also at Davos, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang pitches AI five-layer cake
Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings (2026/01/21) Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings
ESA puts ExoMars lander through its paces with eye on 2028 launch (2026/01/21) After Russia drama and NASA's on-again-off-again romance, rover shows it still has legs... four of them
We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities (2026/01/21) AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash
Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration (2026/01/21) Opinion Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?
Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data (2026/01/21) Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent