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's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry

(2026/01/22)

Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike



Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

(2026/01/22)

Veteran text editor gets more AI enhancements while Paint will be able to generate coloring books



Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

(2026/01/22)

Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force



Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls

(2026/01/22)

Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row



Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

(2026/01/22)

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade



House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

(2026/01/22)

As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children



Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push

(2026/01/22)

Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting



Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture

(2026/01/22)

Launch vehicle due to make maiden flight this year, company promises update in February earnings call



Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day

(2026/01/22)

The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover



Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud

(2026/01/22)

Hands On There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more



SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

(2026/01/22)

Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC



British Army's drone degree program set to take flight

(2026/01/22)

Program will train just 20 people per year



Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

(2026/01/22)

Bork!Bork!Bork! When the operating system is older than the transport network



Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

(2026/01/22)

Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions



eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

(2026/01/22)

This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar



Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

(2026/01/22)

Jensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later



AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

(2026/01/22)

Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year



Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

(2026/01/22)

Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality



AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

(2026/01/21)

Business transformation, but not much remuneration



MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time

(2026/01/21)

From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next



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The story of the butterfly:
"I was in Bogota and waiting for a lady friend. I was in love,
a long time ago. I waited three days. I was hungry but could not go
out for food, lest she come and I not be there to greet her. Then, on
the third day, I heard a knock."
"I hurried along the old passage and there, in the sunlight,
there was nothing."
"Just," Vance Joy said, "a butterfly, flying away."
-- Peter Carey, BLISS