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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.…
AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks
AI isn't killing jobs wholesale – it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time.…
Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city
The post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.…
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
After weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…
Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train
Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.…
Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base
NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. …
Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse
Datadog is close to releasing an updated AI model that it thinks will help it avoid the so-called SaaSpocalypse – customers using AI to build their own tools.…
HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed
Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…

