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Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

Jensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

Business transformation, but not much remuneration

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Big Red gets to store data, advise on security, and store the 'I'll watch just one more video' algo

SaaS23 Jan 2026 |

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

Systems23 Jan 2026 |

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client

Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects

Systems23 Jan 2026 |

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up

AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 10

FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft

Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches

Cyber-crime22 Jan 2026 | 3

Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor

GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement

PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2026 | 7

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry

Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike

Networks22 Jan 2026 | 8

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Veteran text editor gets more AI enhancements while Paint will be able to generate coloring books

OSes22 Jan 2026 | 53

Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force

Security22 Jan 2026 | 7

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls

Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row

Security22 Jan 2026 | 3

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade

Patches22 Jan 2026 | 28

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children

Public Sector22 Jan 2026 | 47

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push

Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting

AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 5

Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture

Launch vehicle due to make maiden flight this year, company promises update in February earnings call

Science22 Jan 2026 | 7

Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

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

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day

The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover

Networks22 Jan 2026 | 1

Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud

Hands On There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more

OSes22 Jan 2026 | 24

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC

Databases22 Jan 2026 | 9

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight

Program will train just 20 people per year

Public Sector22 Jan 2026 | 7

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

Bork!Bork!Bork! When the operating system is older than the transport network

Offbeat22 Jan 2026 | 18

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions

AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 56

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar

AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 18

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

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

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, ‘Why not use MAUI?’

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

AI vibe coding: when automation convenience becomes security debt

Intruder's AI-coded honeypot revealed the hidden risks of letting machines write production code

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Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

Jensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later

AI + ML22 Jan 2026 | 12

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year

Networks22 Jan 2026 |

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality

Security21 Jan 2026 | 10

Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers

Hammerspace appoints new sales head

Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

Business transformation, but not much remuneration

AI + ML21 Jan 2026 | 57

MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time

From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next

Science21 Jan 2026 | 29

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it

Public Sector21 Jan 2026 | 2

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise?

Do TOPS trump everything else?

Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam

updated Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords

Cyber-crime21 Jan 2026 | 20

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Also at Davos, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang pitches AI five-layer cake

AI + ML21 Jan 2026 | 97

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings

Encrypted files, Cloudflare sharing, and political outreach surface in DOJ filings

Public Sector21 Jan 2026 | 9

ESA puts ExoMars lander through its paces with eye on 2028 launch

After Russia drama and NASA's on-again-off-again romance, rover shows it still has legs... four of them

Offbeat21 Jan 2026 | 4

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash

AI + ML21 Jan 2026 | 8

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

Opinion Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?

AI + ML21 Jan 2026 | 84

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data

Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent

Cyber-crime21 Jan 2026 | 5

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially

Offbeat21 Jan 2026 | 140

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others

Networks21 Jan 2026 | 14

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court

Artist formerly known as Facebook can’t escape the legal-verse

Personal Tech21 Jan 2026 | 6

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion

Security21 Jan 2026 | 29

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive

January update is the gift that keeps on giving

Storage21 Jan 2026 | 42

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Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client

Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams

Trump says he got a deal for rare earths in Greenland, but they won't come easy

AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations

Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance

Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails

Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption

Windows fails to tip the scales in grocery store deployment

Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains

PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft

Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor

EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push

Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture

Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

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

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day

Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

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

Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, ‘Why not use MAUI?’

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

AI vibe coding: when automation convenience becomes security debt

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

Coldago has four leading unstructured data managers

Hammerspace appoints new sales head

Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028

Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

MIT boffins create device that 'paints' iridescent structural color in real time

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise?

Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Social Security Administration admits it underreported DOGE dirty dealings

ESA puts ExoMars lander through its paces with eye on 2028 launch

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

FTC tries to un-Zuck Meta's grip on the market by dragging it back to court

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive

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