'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

16 hours ago

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland's power grid, experts say -- Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy

1 day ago

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C - feature - Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI

21 hours ago

WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

7 minutes ago

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

11 days ago

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

16 hours ago

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 - | 1

17 minutes ago

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

11 hours 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

11 hours ago

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

12 hours ago

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

13 hours 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

14 hours ago

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

14 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

15 hours ago

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

16 hours ago

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

17 hours ago

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

8 hours 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

19 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

20 hours ago

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

20 hours ago

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 - |

19 hours ago

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 - | 15

4 hours ago

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

21 hours ago

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

22 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 - Agentic AI - 27 Jan 2026 - | 92

17 minutes ago

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

22 hours ago

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 -- Science

22 hours ago

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

2 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting

1 day ago

AI Is Coming To Solve Your System Outages

1 day ago

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype - Opinion - Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

8 hours ago

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

23 hours ago

Crossrail? More like Borkrail... Bork!Bork!Bork! A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork - Offbeat - 27 Jan 2026 - | 18

13 hours ago

Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source -- Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers -- AI + ML

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign -- Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C - feature - Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI - Devops - 26 Jan 2026 - | 39

24 minutes ago

Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power -- Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims -- Systems

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

5 days ago

LLVM project adopts "human in the loop" policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

6 days ago

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

1 day ago

US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day - updated - Winter storms bring Oracle datacenter down - SaaS - 26 Jan 2026 - | 20

51 minutes ago

Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps -- An official Model Context Protocol extension -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE -- But CEOs remain frozen in place -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures

12 hours ago

Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth

18 hours ago

VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe capacity

19 hours ago

Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud

18 hours ago

AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup -- Points to a use-case problem -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity -- Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself -- Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages -- Networks

1 day 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

2 days ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd -- Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work -- OSes

1 day ago

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy -- Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler -- The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued -- Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI -- Agentic AI

1 day ago

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images -- Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB -- US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates -- Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation -- OSes

1 day ago

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland's power grid, experts say -- Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small - Opinion - Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web - Software - 26 Jan 2026 - | 22

8 hours ago

Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update -- 2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management -- Storage

1 day ago

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit -- Big Red says 'sovereign' platform supports decision-making and operational learning at sea -- AI + ML

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 uncovers 76 zero-days, pays out more than $1M -- infosec in brief -- Also, cybercriminals get breached, Gemini spills the calendar beans, and more -- Security

2 days ago

No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming -- feature -- Balancing the need to know with the need to get shovels in the ground is causing friction in communities across the US -- Off-Prem

1 day 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

2 days ago

Future of UK's multibillion Ajax armored vehicle program looks shaky -- Noise and vibration keeps sending soldiers to the medics -- Offbeat

2 days ago

How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language - feature - Bernard Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI - Devops - 24 Jan 2026 - | 39

1 day 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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

AI vibe coding: when automation convenience becomes security debt - Intruder's AI-coded honeypot revealed the hidden risks of letting machines write production code - Partner Content

6 days ago

Feds totally skipping infosec industry's biggest conference this year -- But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there

1 day ago

Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide -- UK watchdog investigates accuracy of data handed over for SMS market review -- Legal

4 days ago

Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today -- If you skipped it back then, now's a very good time -- Patches

4 days ago

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

3 days ago

ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs -- 'A lot more' victims to come, we're told -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

China's Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop - and, yes, built-in AI - Hands On - Where FOSS desktop OSes meet geopolitics - OSes - 23 Jan 2026 - | 61

14 hours ago

Hacker taps Raspberry Pi to turn Wi-Fi signals into wall art -- Pipe local wireless noise through an SDR into an RPi, and 64 LED filaments do the rest -- Offbeat

4 days ago

NASA planet hunter resumes operations after low power incident -- Pointing problem left TESS in the dark -- Science

4 days ago

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec -- Security chief says criminals are already automating workflows, with full end-to-end tools likely within years -- CSO

4 days ago

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate -- Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system -- Databases

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options -- As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control -- Databases

4 days ago