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No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher
PCs and datacenters aren't the only devices that need DRAM. The global memory shortage is roiling the cybersecurity market, with the cost of firewalls expected to balloon and hit both customers and vendors in the pocketbook in 2026, according to research analysts Wedbush.…
'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway
A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited minors, has been arrested in Iraq.…
Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters
Meta has formed a new initiative called “Meta Compute” to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.…
Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote
Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn't learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams based on what disk you insert. …
Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini
It may finally be time to take AI on the iPhone siri-ously. Apple and Google on Monday announced a multi-year partnership that will see Apple Foundation Models standing on the shoulders of Google Gemini models, one that will return a small portion of the roughly $20 billion Google pays annually to be Apple's default search provider.…
Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
Nvidia has teamed up with pharmaceutical heavyweight Eli Lilly to plow up to $1 billion into a research lab over the next five years to advance the development of foundation models for AI-assisted drug discovery.…
PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory
Memory shortages will likely stunt PC shipments in 2026, as available supplies will not be able to meet demand thanks to memory makers chasing the lucrative AI infrastructure market instead.…
Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag
Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows activation is a tricky thing, particularly for digital signage that should be directing customers to in-store bargains but instead shows passersby that someone has yet to give Microsoft their pound of flesh.…
Businesses in 2026: Maybe we should finally look into that AI security stuff
The number of organizations that have implemented methods for identifying security risks in the AI tools they use has almost doubled in the space of a year.…
Don’t bother with the retailer’s website, says Google: Gemini can shop for you
Google is aiming to turn Gemini into a one-stop personal shopper with what it hopes will become a global standard for agentic AI commerce, and it's already persuaded major retailers to let Google handle transactions without sending users to their websites. …
IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship
The new year brings releases from opposite ends of the Linux GUI spectrum: IceWM, an X11 window manager from the late 1990s, and Budgie, a newer full desktop environment that has gone Wayland-native.…
Block CISO: We red-teamed our own AI agent to run an infostealer on an employee laptop
interview When it comes to security, AI agents are like self-driving cars, according to Block Chief Information Security Officer James Nettesheim.…
Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit
Microsoft has abruptly pulled the plug on the venerable Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), sending any administrators still clinging to the platform scrambling for alternatives.…
Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data
Fresh from watching rival OpenAI stick its nose into patient records, Anthropic has decided now is the perfect moment to march Claude into US healthcare too, promising to fix medicine with yet more AI, APIs, and carefully-worded reassurances about privacy.…
ISS stint ends early as NASA aborts Crew-11 over crew illness
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has handed command of the ISS to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as Fincke and the rest of Crew-11 are scheduled to head back to Earth on Wednesday.…
Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins
Microsoft's latest Windows Insider release introduces a policy allowing admins to remove the Copilot app from managed devices. But there's a catch - actually, several.…
Infamous BreachForums forum breached, spilling data on 325K users
BreachForums, the serially resurrected cybercrime marketplace, has tripped over itself after a data breach spilled details tied to about 324,000 user accounts.…
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age
Opinion For a world economy driven by consumerism, it's become markedly unkind to consumers. This goes double – literally – for digital tech, where memory prices have increased by between 100 and 250 percent in six months. If you think GPUs are pricey now, you'll only have to wait six weeks, during which both AMD and Nvidia are expected to demonstrate supply-side economics much as the Road Runner demonstrated gravity to Wile E Coyote.…
Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on
Ofcom is investigating X over potential violations of the Online Safety Act, Britian's comms watchdog has confirmed.…
How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom
A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic, The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, is on the face of it an interesting little excursion into the late delivery of a long-forgotten bit of software – one that turned out to be pivotal for the entire computer industry.…