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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

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 + ML14 Jan 2026 | 5

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes

Cloud-native, 37 plugins … an attacker's dream

Security14 Jan 2026 | 9

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

Systems14 Jan 2026 | 8

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 Sector14 Jan 2026 | 10

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-crime14 Jan 2026 | 8

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

OSes14 Jan 2026 | 11

'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

Research14 Jan 2026 |

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please

On-Prem14 Jan 2026 | 10

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism

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

Software14 Jan 2026 | 15

Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients

Attack enters second day with major disruption to healthcare provision

Cyber-crime14 Jan 2026 | 3

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-crime14 Jan 2026 | 11

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work

U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered

Public Sector14 Jan 2026 | 65

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed law

AI + ML14 Jan 2026 | 40

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

Storage14 Jan 2026 | 8

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-crime14 Jan 2026 | 8

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

Offbeat14 Jan 2026 | 9

Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security

AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontier

Security14 Jan 2026 |

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

Science14 Jan 2026 | 8

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 Sector14 Jan 2026 | 9

By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

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

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

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

exclusive Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power

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

Software14 Jan 2026 | 5

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm

First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes big

Security14 Jan 2026 | 1

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows

Could be back to 2016 levels

Systems13 Jan 2026 | 6

Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group

Patches13 Jan 2026 | 1

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

AI + ML13 Jan 2026 | 9

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

Step 1: Ask for deposit. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Build Moon hotel empire

Offbeat13 Jan 2026 | 86

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble

Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers

Storage13 Jan 2026 | 3

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

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

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

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

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

Scanning the future

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips

Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 7

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030

AI-pocalypse Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse

AI + ML13 Jan 2026 | 13

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support

On-Prem13 Jan 2026 | 55

Veeam’s Chief Product Officer resigns

Veeam confirms acquisition of Object First

Nasuni’s latest exec reshuffle

PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

The Emperor Penguin has a go… just for fun

AI + ML13 Jan 2026 | 43

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam

33-year-old was under surveillance for some time before returning home from the UAE

Legal13 Jan 2026 | 7

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar

Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds

On-Prem13 Jan 2026 | 40

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

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list

Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops

Security13 Jan 2026 | 2

Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs

AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers

SaaS13 Jan 2026 |

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

Cyber-crime13 Jan 2026 | 24

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Updated Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson

Offbeat13 Jan 2026 | 26

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster

Databases13 Jan 2026 | 31

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed

Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 107

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott

Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes

Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 13

Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them

Virtualization13 Jan 2026 | 6

India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real

Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds

Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 10

No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher

In SEC filings, Fortinet and Palo Alto show shrinking product margins taking hold.

Security12 Jan 2026 | 4

'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway

Gang members 'systematically exploited children and young people,' cops say

Cyber-crime12 Jan 2026 | 9

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

No wonder he's going nuclear

Off-Prem12 Jan 2026 | 19

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Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics

Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute

CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version

'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients

Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets

Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea

Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security

India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row

Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue

By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

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

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

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows

Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack

Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Veeam’s Chief Product Officer resigns

Veeam confirms acquisition of Object First

Nasuni’s latest exec reshuffle

PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list

Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott

Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real

No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher

'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway

Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

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