Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info (2026/01/09) No naming that tune and no album covers
NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare (2026/01/09) Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed
Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more (2026/01/09) Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping
China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure (2026/01/09) Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders (2026/01/09) Opinion The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused
Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars (2026/01/09) Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats
Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error (2026/01/09) Bork!Bork!Bork! The queue might move on, but the software never did
Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' (2026/01/09) Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on (2026/01/09) Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem (2026/01/09) On Call As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again
Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 (2026/01/09) Opinion Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud
Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response (2026/01/09) Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus (2026/01/09) Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card
Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book (2026/01/09) Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails
Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete (2026/01/09) Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling
While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 (2026/01/09) Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away
As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security (2026/01/08) Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely...
ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor (2026/01/08) It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers
Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders (2026/01/08) Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter
Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off (2026/01/08) Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox