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)

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking

(2026/01/21)

Bork!Bork!Bork! But who is paying to keep the lights on?



Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

(2026/01/21)

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones



Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL

(2026/01/21)

Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered



OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy

(2026/01/21)

Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed



Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers

(2026/01/21)

ACME validation had a challenge-request hole



Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

(2026/01/20)

This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right?



Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility

(2026/01/20)

Sure it's a bubble and the deals are circular - that doesn't mean Amazon's not going to try to extract value from it



AI researchers map models to banish 'demon' persona

(2026/01/20)

Keeping models on the Assistant Axis improves AI safety



Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly

(2026/01/20)

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser



Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it

(2026/01/20)

AI + skilled malware developers = security threat



Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say

(2026/01/20)

Still or sparkling? Either way, the problem of scale remains



Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is

(2026/01/20)

Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035



Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

(2026/01/20)

Mailbox costs leap overnight as longtime users vent their frustration



OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it

(2026/01/20)

And the world economy might depend on it finding an answer



Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

(2026/01/20)

PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings



AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

(2026/01/20)

Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP



Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle

(2026/01/20)

Corporate IT refreshed hardware to stay supported, not chase new features



Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution

(2026/01/20)

Prompt injection for the win



For the price of Netflix, crooks can now rent AI to run cybercrime

(2026/01/20)

Group-IB says crims forking out for Dark LLMs, deepfakes, and more at subscription prices



Microsoft veteran explains the one weird trick that made Windows 95 restart faster

(2026/01/20)

Hold down Shift to make the magic happen (or not, as the case might be)



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