UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card - Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification - Public Sector - 26 Jan 2026 - |

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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam - Who, Me? This story starts with the worst mistake of them all – loaning a tool - On-Prem - 26 Jan 2026 - | 24

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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key -- Who, Me? -- Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip -- Security

7 days ago

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security - Scanning the future - Sponsored Feature

11 days ago

CTECC and ZTE Redefine Disaster Response with Air-Space-Ground Intelligent Emergency System - Integrated UAV, satellite and ground networks restore connectivity during the critical 72-hour rescue window - Partner Content

11 days ago

Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need -- A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too -- OSes

17 hours ago

Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors -- Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute -- Systems

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UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings -- Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels -- Public Sector

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Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities -- One-time FSD purchase no longer available as Elon Musk talks up future where drivers can be asleep at the wheel -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch -- Fix didn't quite do the job – attackers spotted logging in -- CSO

2 days ago

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% -- Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide -- Systems

2 days ago

British government caves on datacenter approval after legal challenge -- Ministry admits greenlighting London-based megabit barn without proper environmental safeguards -- On-Prem

2 days ago

London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack -- Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Marching orders delayed: Veterans' Digital ID off to a slow start -- Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark - On Call - Overnight action made for a sticky situation in the candy factory - Personal Tech - 23 Jan 2026 - | 72

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Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations -- Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo -- SaaS

3 days ago

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons -- CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2 -- Systems

3 days ago

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client -- Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects -- Systems

3 days ago

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy -- You can't just grab 'em by the mine shafts - there aren't any -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance -- The aluminum sticks come in 128GB and 256GB variants -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor -- GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry -- Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike -- Networks

3 days ago

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls -- Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row -- Security

3 days ago

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control -- Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off

6 days ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge -- PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

5 days ago

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds -- If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys

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Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages -- Its very own Snooper's Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion

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Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack -- Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

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How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language -- Bernard Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI

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Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers -- Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade

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Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination -- Craig Guildford banned Israeli fans based on Microsoft's match report, told MPs 'we don't use AI,' then discovers... they did

6 days ago

Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins -- Mobile application management updates mean apps could soon be blocked

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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop -- Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming 'silly' ones

4 days ago

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16 -- As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push -- Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day -- The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover -- Networks

3 days ago

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition - Updated - System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC - Databases - 22 Jan 2026 - | 11

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British Army's drone degree program set to take flight -- Program will train just 20 people per year -- Public Sector

4 days ago

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots -- This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar -- AI + ML

4 days ago

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch - Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year - Networks - 22 Jan 2026 - |

4 days ago

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass -- Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings -- Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings -- Public Sector

4 days ago

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years -- Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others -- Networks

4 days ago

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court -- Artist formerly known as Facebook can't escape the legal-verse -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive -- January update is the gift that keeps on giving -- Storage

4 days ago

Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture -- Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice -- Security

4 days ago

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it -- Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says -- AI + ML

4 days ago

MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems -- Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help -- OSes

4 days ago

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire -- Open Rights Group says plans would create serious privacy risks -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue -- Behold the cardboard ENIAC -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China's TCL -- Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea -- This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right? -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Power scarcity drives datacenters to Texas, where the juice is -- Plus, one in three bit barns expected to exceed 1 GW by 2035 -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle -- Corporate IT refreshed hardware to stay supported, not chase new features -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

MPs ask who's responsible when AI crashes the UK finance system -- Committee says watchdogs lack urgency as accountability for automated decisions remains unresolved -- AI + ML

5 days ago

England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director -- Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team -- Public Sector

5 days ago

£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again -- Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency -- Public Sector

5 days ago

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads -- Labels Zuck's ad library 'a window into criminality' and the Social Network as 'happy to turn a blind eye' -- Legal

6 days ago

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone - Interview - OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech - Legal - 20 Jan 2026 - | 12

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AIS and ZTE achieve AIR RAN commercialization for differentiated experience at Thailand BMMF#15 - AIR RAN delivers premium 5G experience monetization and zero-lag performance at Thailand's largest music festival - Partner Content

5 days ago

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase -- Taiwan's Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion -- Systems

6 days ago

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking -- Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox -- Software

6 days ago

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids -- Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT -- Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out -- Cyber-crime

6 days ago

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs -- Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight -- Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD -- AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time. -- HPC

7 days ago

Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack -- Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable -- Research

8 days ago

Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants -- It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers -- Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12 -- Storage

9 days ago

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena' -- Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons -- OSes

9 days ago

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check -- That went well -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term -- Analyst: We'll hit a spot where 'we go from that was a great idea to where's my revenue?' -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing -- Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Researchers scrutinize datacenters' lifecycles, aiming to make them more sustainable -- Much of the damage done well before first power-on, in bit barns' childhood, says study -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue - On Call - How not to maintain computers - On-Prem - 16 Jan 2026 - | 206

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TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years -- 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises -- AI + ML

10 days ago

Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon - You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink - Systems - 15 Jan 2026 - |

10 days ago

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle's borrowing spree sue Big Red -- Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt. -- Systems

10 days ago

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras' AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal -- SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation -- Systems

10 days ago

Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise -- When margins are this tight, mergers might follow -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach -- Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice -- Security

10 days ago

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store. -- OSes

10 days ago

Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 -- 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? -- AI + ML

10 days ago

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware -- Hasn't revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy -- AI + ML

11 days ago

Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute -- Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power -- Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume -- Systems

11 days ago

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications -- Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells Congress -- Public Sector

11 days ago

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach -- Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits -- Cyber-crime

11 days ago

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version -- Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006 -- OSes

11 days ago

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits -- Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please -- On-Prem

11 days ago

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around -- Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks -- Software

11 days ago

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work -- U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told -- Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed law -- AI + ML

11 days ago

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets -- Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you -- Storage

11 days ago

Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue -- America first, for sales and access to foundries -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows -- Could be back to 2016 levels -- Systems

12 days ago

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble -- Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers -- Storage

12 days ago

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services -- US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips -- Public Sector

12 days ago

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030 - AI-pocalypse - Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse - AI + ML - 13 Jan 2026 - | 13

11 days ago

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades -- Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar -- Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds -- On-Prem

12 days ago

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list -- Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops -- Security

12 days ago

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board -- Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster -- Databases

12 days ago

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back -- Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott -- Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes -- Public Sector

13 days ago