IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship (2026/01/12) Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig
Block CISO: We red-teamed our own AI agent to run an infostealer on an employee laptop (2026/01/12) exclusive Agents must be 'safer and better than humans,' James Nettesheim tells The Reg
Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit (2026/01/12) Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform
Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data (2026/01/12) AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin
ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness (2026/01/12) Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed
Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins (2026/01/12) Yes, you can get rid of it – assuming nobody's looked at it in 28 days
Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users (2026/01/12) Updated Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age (2026/01/12) Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on (2026/01/12) Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom (2026/01/12) A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal (2026/01/12) Bork!Bork!Bork! 'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused'
Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools (2026/01/12) Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals (2026/01/12) A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause (2026/01/12) Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals
Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine (2026/01/12) Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code (2026/01/12) Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut (2026/01/12) Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!
Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak (2026/01/12) infosec in brief PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more
AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them (2026/01/11) exclusive Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech (2026/01/11) Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence