BOFH - : Every computer system eventually serves ads - Episode 1 - Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time - BOFH - 16 Jan 2026 - | 38

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An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together - You can't park there, mate - Offbeat - 16 Jan 2026 - | 12

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BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads - Episode 1 - Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time

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An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together -- You can't park there, mate

3 hours ago

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue - On Call - How not to maintain computers

5 hours ago

Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln -- Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

2 hours ago

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch -- Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug -- Patches

4 hours ago

Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in -- First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options -- OSes

4 hours 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

5 hours ago

German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list - Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home - Cyber-crime - 16 Jan 2026 - |

5 hours ago

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

6 hours 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

6 hours 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

7 hours ago

RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug -- Check Point observes 40K+ attack attempts in 4 hours, with government organizations under fire -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust -- Agency dodges deep cut and mass mission shutdowns, but ambitious red planet plan gets the boot -- Science

8 hours 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

8 hours ago

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all -- Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized -- Security

7 hours ago

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea - Opinion - For trivial projects, it's fine. For serious work, forget about it - AI + ML - 16 Jan 2026 - | 20

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Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow - The Emperor Penguin has a go... just for fun

23 hours ago

Probably not the best security in the world: Carlsberg wristbands spill visitor pics - Exclusive - Researcher shows how anyone can access Copenhagen experience attendees' names, videos - Security - 16 Jan 2026 - | 6

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Wikimedia's 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created -- Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

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

17 hours ago

OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman -- Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks -- This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins -- Patches

21 hours 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 - |

15 hours ago

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure -- The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies -- What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

2 hours ago

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

1 day ago

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

6 days ago

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom - A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant

23 hours 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

1 day ago

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork -- Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that -- Security

1 day 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

1 day ago

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown -- The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk's problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in -- AI + ML

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

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Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

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Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service

2 days ago

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

2 days ago

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

3 days ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post

10 days ago

Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans -- Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications -- AI + ML

1 day ago

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking -- Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums -- Security

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Storage news ticker – 16 January 2026

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Acronis adds archive service using Seagate's Lyve Cloud

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HYCU, Keepit lead IDC SaaS data protection report

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Storage News Ticker – 15 January

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

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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

1 day ago

Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action - How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster - Sponsored Post

14 days ago

Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS -- Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix -- Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die -- ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment -- Software

1 day 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

1 day ago

CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage -- Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again -- Legal

1 day ago

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers -- But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says -- AI + ML

1 day 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

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

6 hours ago

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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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

2 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

2 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

2 days ago

'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work -- New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defenses -- Research

2 days ago

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty -- EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands

1 day ago

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it -- Exclusive -- Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

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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.

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AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics -- Interview -- Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back

2 hours ago

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' -- And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg

10 hours ago

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes -- Cloud-native, 37 plugins ... an attacker's dream

16 hours 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

5 hours ago

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue -- On Call -- How not to maintain computers

2 hours ago

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year -- January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication

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Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln -- Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

4 hours 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

2 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

2 days ago

Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients -- Attack enters second day with major disruption to healthcare provision -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

28 days ago

Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details -- Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own services -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 days ago

Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab -- Endesa says payment info stolen after alleged crook boasted of 1 TB-plus haul -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea - Bork!Bork!Bork! When salty coastal air meets memory errors in one of Portugal's rail ticket machines - Offbeat - 14 Jan 2026 - | 17

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Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security - AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontier - Security - 14 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

India's flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row -- One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data -- Science

2 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

2 days ago

Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format -- Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back -- Software

2 days ago

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm -- First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes big -- Security

2 days ago

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

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