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)

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate

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Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time



Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory

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Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action



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(2026/01/08)

AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch



IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show

(2026/01/07)

Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails



New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom

(2026/01/07)

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British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture

(2026/01/07)

Let the co-opetition commence



SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs

(2026/01/07)

NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner



ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open

(2026/01/07)

exclusive Two weeks, two major data leaks … not a good look for the European Space Agency



Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses

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pcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this year



FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s

(2026/01/07)

RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves ahead



Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown

(2026/01/07)

Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps up



Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs

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Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead?



Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul

(2026/01/07)

Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients



Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025

(2026/01/07)

Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year



GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

(2026/01/07)

Opinion Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'



Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions

(2026/01/07)

Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal



Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack

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Updated High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted



Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath

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Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3



Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery

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Bork!Bork!Bork! The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue



HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

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Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid



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Fun Facts, #63:
The name California was given to the state by Spanish conquistadores.
It was the name of an imaginary island, a paradise on earth, in the
Spanish romance, "Les Serges de Esplandian", written by Montalvo in
1510.