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)

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



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



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