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Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs
Firefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome.…
Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants
Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects.…
NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers
Opinion NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.…
JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming
Dev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature.…
Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life
Dell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves - but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals.…
Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore – what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.…
HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away
The UK's tax collection agency has awarded Amazon Web Services – the only remaining bidder – a contract worth nearly £500 million to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and host them for up to a decade.…
Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through.…
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?…
YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply
Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.…
Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K
The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.…
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs
End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle
Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.…
Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models
Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…
HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy
You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.…
AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine
Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…
EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom
interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…
Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens
An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.…
LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised
Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

