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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized the world was not many years away from running out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses, the numbers needed to identify any device connected to the public internet. Noting booming interest in the internet, the internet community went looking for ways to avoid an IP address shortage that many feared would harm technology adoption and therefore the global economy.…
Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong
This summer, AI chip startup Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of $6.9 billion. Just three months later, Nvidia celebrated the holidays by dropping nearly three times that to license its technology and squirrel away its talent.…
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
Opinion COBOL turned 66 this year and is still in use today. Major retail and commercial banks continue to run core account processing, ATM networks, credit card clearing, and batch end-of-day settlement. On top of that, many payment networks, stock exchanges, and clearinghouses rely on COBOL for high‑volume, high‑reliability batch and online transaction processing on mainframes.…
Hong Kong’s newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking
Hong Kong’s banks have a new weapon against scams: Accounts that require customers to visit a branch to access their funds.…
Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum
A ransomware negotiator and a security incident response manager have admitted to running ransomware attacks.…
New York’s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the city’s residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told attendees not to bring a Raspberry Pi to the event.…
ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent
ServiceNow’s amended employment contract with CEO Bill McDermott extends his time with the company into the next decade, but also provides possible next steps for the journeyman corporate leader, including the co-CEO role, a position he held at SAP in the years prior to joining the ITSM juggernaut.…
iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers
If you're thinking of plopping your infant in front of a screen to get some peace and quiet, you might want to reconsider - higher screen exposure in infancy was linked to longer decision times later on and higher anxiety symptoms in the teenage years.…
An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit
A high-severity MongoDB Server vulnerability, for which proofs of concept emerged over Christmas week, is now under active exploitation, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…
Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation
Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Bork comes courtesy of an exhibition dedicated to the UK street artist Banksy and demonstrates that "Limitless" does not always apply to Windows Activation.…
When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight
Today, Nvidia’s revenues are dominated by hardware sales. But when the AI bubble inevitably pops, the GPU giant will become the single most important software company in the world.…
Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls
Leaders from Dell, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake have released their 2026 predictions for AI in the workplace, and they agree that safeguards for AI agents and ROI are the top priorities for their customers.…
We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server
Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork can happen to the best of us, but flashing one's undercarriage at the boss of a compliance company is less than ideal, particularly at 35,000 feet in the air.…
Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has found that local carrier Korea Telecom (KT) deployed thousands of badly secured femtocells, leading to an attack that enabled micropayments fraud and snooping on customers’ communications – maybe for years.…
Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words
Meta will acquire made-in-China AI outfit Manus and harness its “general agent” technology across its products.…
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer
Nvidia’s $5 billion Intel stock purchase is already worth $7.58 billion, turning the recently approved bailout of its rival into a shrewd financial play.…
Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims
Rogue insiders suspected of taking bribes to hand over Coinbase customer records to criminals are beginning to face justice, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.…
Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online
A criminal group is beating Conde Nast over the head for not responding sooner to its extortion attempt by posting stolen subscribers' email and home addresses and warning the publisher of Wired, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Teen Vogue that it has 40 million more entries.…
Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line
How’d you like to earn more than half a million dollars working for one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies? The catch: the job is stressful, and the last few people tasked with it didn’t stick around. Over the weekend, OpenAI boss Sam Altman went public with a search for a new Head of Preparedness, saying rapidly improving AI models are creating new risks that need closer oversight.…
Four tech trends from 2025 that will shape the future – because they have to
Opinion The oxygen of publicity this year has mostly been consumed by our two-lettered friend, AI. There's no reason to think this will change in 2026. However, through the magic of journalism, here's a world where that's not true, a world where other things are happening that will shape the future. We like to call it the real world, and here's what's happening there and why it matters.…