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Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul
Microsoft has backed away from planned changes to Exchange Online after customers objected to limits designed to curb outbound email abuse.…
Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025
The US state of Virginia forfeited $1.6 billion in tax revenue through datacenter exemptions in fiscal 2025 – up 118 percent on the prior year – as the AI-driven construction boom accelerates.…
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going away soon, and from Firefox too.…
Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions
The Post Office's Horizon computer system may have been deployed earlier than thought, potentially affecting which convictions get automatically quashed under legislation introduced to speed up justice in one of the biggest scandals in recent British history, MPs heard yesterday.…
Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack
The UK's Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.…
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath
Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year.…
Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery
Bork!Bork!Bork! The baddest of AI bad guys, the Terminator, has confirmed what the vast majority of IT professionals already know. The machines are not about to rise, not until they can deal with that pesky battery voltage.…
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations
Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.…
UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go
The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce a conversational AI platform it hopes will steer calls from citizens with queries about their benefits. The contract is worth up to £23 million.…
Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll
If there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen that could roll out to increase its size from 14 to 16.7 inches. Now, it’s back with the ThinkPad Rollable XD concept laptop that expands from 13.3 to 16 inches at the touch of a button or a swipe, along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, which uses a motor to rotate its screen and follow you around the room.…
Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires
A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk.…
HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher
Last fall, Jakub Ciolek reported two denial-of-service bugs in Argo CD, a popular Kubernetes controller, via HackerOne's Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program. Both were assigned CVEs and have since been fixed. But instead of receiving an $8,500 reward for the two flaws, Ciolek says, HackerOne ghosted him for months.…
Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini
The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supported clouds, the company told The Register.…
Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint
Brave Software has reworked its browser's Rust-based adblock engine to make it significantly more memory efficient and perhaps more secure. So you get fewer ads now with fewer MB of RAM.…
Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production
CES 2026 Remember when Elon Musk predicted that there would be thousands of Optimus robots at Tesla factories by the end of 2025? Well, that didn't happen, but competitor Boston Dynamics has just announced that its humanoid robot, Atlas, is going to the big time.…
Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale
Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or about $276,370. …
Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested
Not even Legos are safe from the inexorable march of smart technology, as the Danish construction toy stalwart introduced a new tech-in-a-brick Smart Play system at CES this week. …
What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32
What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?…
StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out
For many, the start of a new year is a time to take stock. For Microsoft, it was a time to stop giving it as the company kicked off 2026 with a bug that broke Excel's StockHistory function.…
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft has bought Osmos, an AI-assisted data engineering platform, in a bid to enrich its Fabric data platform, encroaching on so-called partners' markets.…