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IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge -- Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs

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If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this - Opinion - It's not your fault

7 hours ago

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted -- Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS

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Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out -- Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole

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Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year -- To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet -- Offbeat

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Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work - A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds - AI + ML - 29 Jan 2026 - |

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Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom -- 'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment' -- Agentic AI

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Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts - ai-pocalypse - The 129 year old chemical company uses Palantir-rival C3's AI as its software of choice. AI + ML - 29 Jan 2026 - | 7

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AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2 -- Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate -- AI + ML

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To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide -- The Chocolate Factory strikes again, targeting the infrastructure attackers use to stay anonymous -- Cyber-crime

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AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare - eScan lawyers up after Morphisec claimed 'critical supply-chain compromise' Security - 29 Jan 2026 - |

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Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules -- Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing -- Science

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Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted -- Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS -- OSes

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IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge -- Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

ShinyHunters swipes right on 10M records in alleged dating app data grab -- Extortion crew says it's found love in someone else's info as Match Group plays down the impact -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out -- Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole -- On-Prem

7 hours ago

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour - Feature - Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways

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Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy -- Elon thinks taxis and androids will succeed where car sales are stalling -- AI + ML

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Patch or perish: Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions -- Apply fixes within a few hours or face the music, say the pros -- Security

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Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details -- Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers -- OSes

8 hours ago

Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026 -- Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge -- On-Prem

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Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment - Interview - 'What we are finding is that people hate AI' AI + ML - 29 Jan 2026 - | 30

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Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold -- Close call after an apparently deliberate attempt to starve a country of energy at the worst time -- Cyber-crime

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Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control -- 150-strong 'surge team' deployed as 8,500 retirees left high and dry, some waiting 9 months for legally owed cash -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working -- Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold -- Databases

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If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this -- Opinion -- It's not your fault -- PaaS + IaaS

11 hours ago

Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers -- The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords -- AI + ML

11 hours ago

Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Happier days at Intel nailed to the wall of discount retailer -- Personal Tech

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Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI

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Microsoft Takes On Other Clouds With "Braga" Maia 200 AI Compute Engines

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Nvidia's $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket

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Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting

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AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen - The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it

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Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure -- All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push -- The world's most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing -- Agentic AI

21 hours ago

ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter -- 80 billion workflows makes a difference -- Agentic AI

23 hours ago

Ransomware crims forced to take off-RAMP as FBI seizes forum -- Cybercrime solved. The end -- Cyber-crime

23 hours ago

Claude Code's prying AIs read off-limits secret files -- Developers remain unsure how to prevent access to sensitive data -- AI + ML

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Everybody is WinRAR phishing, dropping RATs as fast as lightning -- Russians, Chinese spies, run-of-the-mill crims ... -- Cyber-crime

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Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries -- Redmond has pledged to be carbon-negative by 2030 -- Off-Prem

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Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

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TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'

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WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

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Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

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Seven habits that help security teams reduce risk without slowing delivery - The right habits change everything - Sponsored Post

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Yes, you can build an AI agent - here's how, using LangFlow - Hands On - AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop - Agentic AI - 28 Jan 2026 - | 11

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Fortinet unearths another critical bug as SSO accounts borked post-patch -- More work for admins on the cards as they await a full dump of fixes -- Security

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AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production -- Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO -- Agentic AI

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Apache Iceberg gets cloud-based ETL pipeline

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Samsung Electronics triples profit as HBM revenues rocket up

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Pure Storage gets storage role in Nokia RA for telcos

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VDURA offers to undercut all-flash rivals amid SSD price surge

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Flush with cash, SK hynix spawns mysteriously named 'AI Co.' -- Memory boom funds $10B punt on 'solutions' outfit that's still light on details -- AI + ML

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Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA -- How a cold morning, failed O-rings, and flawed decision-making led to tragedy -- Science

1 day ago

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination -- Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened -- AI + ML

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AI is coming to solve your system outages - The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be? Sponsored Feature

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Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses -- Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature -- Security

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Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation -- Opinion -- If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points -- AI + ML

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Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing -- Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework -- Public Sector

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How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies -- Feature -- You can't cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up -- Agentic AI

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Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week -- But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud -- PaaS + IaaS

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Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden -- Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time -- AI + ML

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UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die - Updated - AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline - Public Sector - 28 Jan 2026 - | 17

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Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir -- 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside -- Public Sector

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ATM flashes a port or two for the enterprising hacker - Bork!Bork!Bork! Connection secured. Not so sure about the installation - Offbeat - 28 Jan 2026 - | 21

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Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle -- Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust -- Security

1 day ago

ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you -- Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents -- Public Sector

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Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google -- Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people -- Legal

2 days ago

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

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Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing -- How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers

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What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? -- Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand

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Building the future-ready datacentre -- Tomorrow's datacentre won't be like yesterday's. Here's why.

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Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim -- Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11 -- An expandable tablet, and a phone that reboots into desktop Windows -- Personal Tech

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Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues -- The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it -- Agentic AI

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European firms push on with AI pilots even as payoff doubts grow -- IDC and Lenovo say enterprises are pressing ahead with pilot deployments despite mixed evidence on returns -- AI + ML

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Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore -- No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028 -- Systems

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Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army -- Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later -- Agentic AI

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Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI -- Vicar of Rome decries naive and unquestioning reliance on technology -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Red Teaming for AI: The Cornerstone of Secure Compliance - The best way to keep your AI on the regulators' right side is to try and break it - Partner Content

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China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers' aides – for years -- Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation -- GAO urges NWS to firm up its AI language plans as policy shifts slow multilingual warnings -- AI + ML

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NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space -- Communication attempts ongoing for stricken spacecraft -- Science

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France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative -- French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? -- Software

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Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era -- Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases -- OSes

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Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort - RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure - HPC - 27 Jan 2026 - |

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Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds - Updated - Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case - Applications - 27 Jan 2026 - | 17

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High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep -- Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law -- Security

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NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter -- In space, no one can hear you bork

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Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch -- Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes. -- Security

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Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan -- 40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly

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Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever -- Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock -- Agentic AI

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