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
FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft (2026/01/22) Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches
Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor (2026/01/22) GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement
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