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)

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



UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help

(2026/01/05)

Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps



Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

(2026/01/05)

Exclusive Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works



New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack

(2026/01/05)

Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients



Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

(2026/01/05)

Opinion From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance



Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

(2026/01/05)

Who, Me? Meet the ‘Mean Avenger’, the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don’t defend their team



Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions

(2026/01/04)

infosec in brief Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more



Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat

(2026/01/04)

interview Lock 'em down



Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot

(2026/01/03)

Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection



Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

(2026/01/03)

Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency



Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025

(2026/01/02)

But how about some smart glasses instead?



Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

(2026/01/02)

Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer



Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release

(2026/01/02)

Netflix documentary part 2 in the works?



Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities

(2026/01/02)

For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin



Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage

(2026/01/02)

EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed



Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars

(2026/01/02)

A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants



Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity

(2026/01/02)

The AI era needs more juice



Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

(2026/01/02)

Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year



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Battle, n.:
A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that
will not yield to the tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce