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)

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

(2026/01/19)

Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much



Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

(2026/01/19)

Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines



Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

(2026/01/19)

Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that



ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

(2026/01/19)

Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip



Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact

(2026/01/19)

Revenue growth is sluggish, too



Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters

(2026/01/19)

Asia In Brief PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more!



Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol

(2026/01/19)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Navy spy sent to brig for 200 months; Black Axe busted again; Bill aims to crimp ICE apps; and more



Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

(2026/01/18)

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.



Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

(2026/01/18)

'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast



Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

(2026/01/17)

Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable



S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

(2026/01/17)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots



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(2026/01/17)

Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow



Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

(2026/01/17)

It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction



Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

(2026/01/17)

Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself?



Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

(2026/01/16)

Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12



Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

(2026/01/16)

Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug



Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in

(2026/01/16)

First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options



Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

(2026/01/16)

Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons



German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list

(2026/01/16)

Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home



Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

(2026/01/16)

That went well



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