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)

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

(2026/01/27)

French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before?



Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

(2026/01/27)

Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases



Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort

(2026/01/27)

RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure



Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds

(2026/01/27)

Updated Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case



High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

(2026/01/27)

Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law



NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter

(2026/01/27)

In space, no one can hear you bork



'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

(2026/01/27)

Feature Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways



Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch

(2026/01/27)

Updated Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes.



Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

(2026/01/27)

40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly



Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever

(2026/01/27)

Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock



Crossrail? More like Borkrail...

(2026/01/27)

Bork!Bork!Bork! A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork



Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source

(2026/01/27)

Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers



AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

(2026/01/27)

The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it



Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign

(2026/01/26)

Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets



How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

(2026/01/26)

feature Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI



Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power

(2026/01/26)

Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims



US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

(2026/01/26)

updated Winter storms bring Oracle datacenter down



Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps

(2026/01/26)

An official Model Context Protocol extension



Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

(2026/01/26)

But CEOs remain frozen in place



AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup

(2026/01/26)

Points to a use-case problem



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