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Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers

1 day ago

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book -- Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails

1 day ago

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind -- 'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'

2 days ago

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else

1 day ago

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence - ANALYSIS - Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation - Cyber-crime - 10 Jan 2026 - | 10

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Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers -- Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations -- HPC

22 hours ago

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment -- Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much -- Applications

1 day ago

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech -- Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? -- Security

1 day ago

Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway -- Developer survey from Sonar finds AI tool adoption has created a verification bottleneck -- AI + ML

1 day ago

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more -- There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals -- New nuclear capacity won't show up until around 2030 -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot -- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else -- OSes

1 day ago

Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher -- Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies -- State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info -- No naming that tune and no album covers -- OSes

1 day ago

NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare -- Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed -- Science

1 day ago

What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 - It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work

1 day ago

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more - Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping - On-Prem - 09 Jan 2026 - | 21

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China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure - Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild - Virtualization - 09 Jan 2026 - |

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders - Opinion - The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused - Software - 09 Jan 2026 - | 33

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Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars -- Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats -- Science

1 day ago

Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error - Bork!Bork!Bork! The queue might move on, but the software never did - Offbeat - 09 Jan 2026 - | 14

12 hours ago

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' -- Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on -- Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts -- Databases

1 day ago

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem -- On Call -- As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again -- Security

1 day ago

Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 -- Opinion -- Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Iran's internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response -- Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too -- Networks

1 day ago

China to probe Meta's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

1 day ago

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs

2 days ago

D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy

3 days ago

AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute

4 days ago

Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware - Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls

1 day ago

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book -- Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete -- Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling -- SaaS

1 day ago

While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 -- Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away -- Storage

2 days ago

As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security -- Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely... -- Security

2 days ago

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor -- It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders - Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter - Systems - 08 Jan 2026 - |

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Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off -- Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inbox -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

2 days ago

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

3 days ago

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

4 days ago

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

5 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

4 days ago

Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit -- No reports of active exploitation ... yet -- Patches

2 days ago

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind -- 'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such' -- OSes

2 days ago

Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins -- One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Storage News Ticker – 9 January

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Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes

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Coldago offers fresh trio of file storage maps

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Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?

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ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady -- NASA mulling options, including an early trip home -- Science

2 days ago

Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead -- Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over -- Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms -- Networks

2 days 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

8 days ago

CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw -- Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops -- Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists -- OSes

2 days ago

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos -- Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server -- Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full control -- Patches

2 days ago

OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering -- Happy Groundhog Day! -- Research

2 days ago

Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware - Interview - They also hallucinate when writing ransomware code - AI + ML - 08 Jan 2026 - | 12

1 day ago

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first -- Synthetic cephalopod skin could be used in architecture and computer displays as well as background-matching subterfuge -- Science

2 days ago

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate -- Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time -- Patches

2 days ago

Cloudflare pours cold water on 'BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela' theory -- Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action -- Networks

2 days ago

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far -- AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch -- Systems

3 days ago

IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show -- Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails -- Security

3 days ago

New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom -- Maybe our AI overlords, hell-bent on securing power any way they can, should invest in getting this to market -- Science

3 days ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

1 month ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

1 month ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

2 months ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

2 months ago

British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture -- Let the co-opetition commence -- AI + ML

3 days ago

SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs -- NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner -- Storage

3 days ago

ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open - exclusive - Two weeks, two major data leaks ... not a good look for the European Space Agency - Cyber-crime - 07 Jan 2026 - | 19

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Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses -- pcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this year -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s -- RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves ahead -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown -- Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps up -- Science

3 days ago

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs -- Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead? -- Systems

3 days ago

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

22 days ago

Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul -- Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients -- Security

3 days ago

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 -- Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year -- On-Prem

3 days ago

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - Opinion - Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' OSes - 07 Jan 2026 - | 162

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Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions -- Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack -- Updated -- High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath -- Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue -- Offbeat

3 days ago

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations -- Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid -- Security

3 days ago

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go -- Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll -- The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon's internals for easier repairs -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires -- Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger -- AI + ML

4 days ago

HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher -- Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed -- Security

4 days ago