How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech (2026/01/09) Remember when government agents didn't wear masks?
Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway (2026/01/09) Developer survey from Sonar finds AI tool adoption has created a verification bottleneck
CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more (2026/01/09) There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money
Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals (2026/01/09) New nuclear capacity won’t show up until around 2030
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot (2026/01/09) Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else
Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher (2026/01/09) Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant
QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies (2026/01/09) State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info (2026/01/09) No naming that tune and no album covers
NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare (2026/01/09) Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed
Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more (2026/01/09) Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping
China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure (2026/01/09) Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders (2026/01/09) Opinion The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused
Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars (2026/01/09) Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats
Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error (2026/01/09) Bork!Bork!Bork! The queue might move on, but the software never did
Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' (2026/01/09) Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on (2026/01/09) Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem (2026/01/09) On Call As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again
Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 (2026/01/09) Opinion Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud
Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response (2026/01/09) Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus (2026/01/09) Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card