S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain - Bork!Bork!Bork! Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots - Offbeat - 17 Jan 2026 - | 29

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

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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

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

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

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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

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Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software -- 'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast -- AI + ML

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

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Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors -- Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow -- AI + ML

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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

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Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day -- Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself? -- AI + ML

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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

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

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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

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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 - |

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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BOFH - : Every computer system eventually serves ads - Episode 1 - Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time - BOFH - 16 Jan 2026 - | 48

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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 - | 16

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Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

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

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Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

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Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder - Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive data

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 - |

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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DNA Data Storage: When the physics work but the economics don't

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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 -- Research

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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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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 -- OSes

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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

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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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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

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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 -- AI + ML

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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

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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine -- Labels Rome's comms regulator 'a quasi-judicial body' that works on behalf of 'shadowy, European media cabal'

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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

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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause -- Who, Me? -- UPSes don't work without power, or well-designed electricals

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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

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Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut -- Asia in Brief -- PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic's noodle shop plan; And more!

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Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware -- Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats

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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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Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak -- infosec in brief -- PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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'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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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