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)

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%

(2026/01/23)

Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide



Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra

(2026/01/23)

Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues



British government caves on datacenter approval after legal challenge

(2026/01/23)

Ministry admits greenlighting London-based megabit barn without proper environmental safeguards



London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack

(2026/01/23)

Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming



UK trade department put civil servants' feelings first during Windows 11 migration

(2026/01/23)

Is that the cloud? No, it's incense wafting through Whitehall



Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start

(2026/01/23)

Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1%



Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

(2026/01/23)

On Call Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory



Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

(2026/01/23)

Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo



Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

(2026/01/23)

CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2



Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client

(2026/01/23)

Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects



Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams

(2026/01/23)

Teach a crook to phish…



Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy

(2026/01/22)

You can't just grab 'em by the mine shafts - there aren't any



AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations

(2026/01/22)

100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement



Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance

(2026/01/22)

The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants



Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails

(2026/01/22)

Logging in, not breaking in



Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption

(2026/01/22)

Dentists least likely to get an LLM kick in the teeth



Windows fails to tip the scales in grocery store deployment

(2026/01/22)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Recovery from an excess of sprouts, or something else?



Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains

(2026/01/22)

Beleaguered country, unfortunately, has plenty of data from its conflict



PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt

(2026/01/22)

After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard



Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

(2026/01/22)

Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up



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*** NEWS FLASH ***

Archeologists find PDP-11/24 inside brain cavity of fossilized dinosaur
skeleton! Many Digital users fear that RSX-11M may be even more primitive
than DEC admits. Price adjustments at 11:00.