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)

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork

(2026/01/15)

Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that



OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

(2026/01/15)

SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation



Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

(2026/01/15)

The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in



A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

(2026/01/15)

And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg



Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise

(2026/01/15)

When margins are this tight, mergers might follow



Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year

(2026/01/15)

January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication



Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans

(2026/01/15)

Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications



US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

(2026/01/15)

Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums



Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach

(2026/01/15)

Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice



Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

(2026/01/15)

Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.



Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2

(2026/01/15)

40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this?



Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS

(2026/01/15)

Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud



Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix

(2026/01/15)

Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine



Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die

(2026/01/15)

ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment



AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

(2026/01/15)

EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands



Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

(2026/01/15)

Exclusive Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell



China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

(2026/01/15)

Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy



AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics

(2026/01/15)

Interview Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back



Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute

(2026/01/15)

Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance



CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage

(2026/01/14)

Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again



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