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
Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors (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