Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT (2026/01/06) Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton
UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd (2026/01/06) Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals
AI's grand promise: Less drudgery, more complexity, same (or lower) pay (2026/01/06) Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI
One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on (2026/01/06) Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials
Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks (2026/01/06) Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant
AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched (2026/01/06) New chips same as the old chips
Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process (2026/01/06) Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet
Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark’s performance since launch (2026/01/06) Just maybe not in the way you're thinking
Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES (2026/01/05) Teasing the next generation earlier than usual
Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus (2026/01/05) Holiday hangover?
ServiceNow snags Microsoft vet to run legal amid M&A spree (2026/01/05) Hossein Nowbar waged antitrust battles and created new legal policies around AI for Redmond
ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money (2026/01/05) One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention (2026/01/05) An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot (2026/01/05) A subpoena has been issued, apparently
Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up (2026/01/05) CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors.
Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer (2026/01/05) With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX’s move looks more like politics than philanthropy
Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips (2026/01/05) Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them (2026/01/05) US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more (2026/01/05) Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching (2026/01/05) It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse