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)

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

(2026/03/12)

It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice



White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

(2026/03/12)

Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda



Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline

(2026/03/12)

OEM delays have become patient care delays



Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud

(2026/03/12)

International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries



Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M

(2026/03/12)

Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more



Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

(2026/03/12)

The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies'



Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

(2026/03/12)

Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan



Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

(2026/03/12)

Obit Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time



NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag

(2026/03/12)

Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury



CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild

(2026/03/12)

No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures



Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge

(2026/03/12)

Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'



Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration

(2026/03/12)

US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract



Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions

(2026/03/12)

Updated Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own



Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

(2026/03/12)

Bork!Bork!Bork! All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going



Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles

(2026/03/12)

DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials



So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

(2026/03/12)

Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook



Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

(2026/03/12)

Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs



Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition

(2026/03/12)

Updated Out of the Copilot and into the fire



Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon

(2026/03/12)

Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop



China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds

(2026/03/12)

Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it



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