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)

Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data

(2026/01/12)

AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin



ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness

(2026/01/12)

Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed



Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

(2026/01/12)

Yes, you can get rid of it – assuming nobody's looked at it in 28 days



Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users

(2026/01/12)

Updated Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own



The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

(2026/01/12)

Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware



Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

(2026/01/12)

Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response



How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom

(2026/01/12)

A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant



Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal

(2026/01/12)

Bork!Bork!Bork! 'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused'



Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools

(2026/01/12)

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health



2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals

(2026/01/12)

A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins



Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

(2026/01/12)

Who, Me? UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals



Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

(2026/01/12)

Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’



India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code

(2026/01/12)

Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors



Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut

(2026/01/12)

Asia in Brief PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!



Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak

(2026/01/12)

infosec in brief PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more



AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

(2026/01/11)

exclusive Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power



Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

(2026/01/11)

Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence



UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

(2026/01/10)

ANALYSIS Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation



Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers

(2026/01/10)

Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations



Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

(2026/01/10)

Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much



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Jargon Coiner (#10)

An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.

* HOBTOB (Hanging Out By The O'Reilly Books): Seeking free Linux technical
support at a bookstore by waiting near the computer books for a geek to
come by and then casually asking them for help.

* MOOLA (Marketing Officially Organizes Linux Adoptance): A press release
issued by a Dot Com (or Dot Con?) heralding their "support" for Linux
(i.e. "BigPortal.com adopts Linux as their official operating system by
adding five Linux-related links to their BigDirectory"); used to inflate
their stock price and rake in moola even though none of their employees
have ever used Linux and don't really care.

* KARMA KOLLECTOR: Slashdot user who treats the acquisition of "karma" as
a game; often has a detailed strategy on how to sucker moderators into
raising the score of their posts (i.e. posting a comment with a title
like "Microsoft Sucks!!! (Score 3, Insightful)" or using "Only a fool
would moderate this down" as a signature). See also "Karma Whore".