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NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter

Tue, 2026-01-27 10:58
In space, no one can hear you bork

NASA has confirmed that its planet hunter, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), entered safe mode due to a command error that inadvertently left the spacecraft's solar arrays angled away from the Sun.…

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'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

Tue, 2026-01-27 10:45
Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways

Feature Open source developer Geoff Huntley wrote a script that sometimes makes him nauseous. That's becaues it uses agentic AI and coding assistants to create high-quality software at such tiny cost, he worries it will upend his profession.…

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Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch

Tue, 2026-01-27 10:35
Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes.

Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks.…

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Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

Tue, 2026-01-27 10:15
40 years later, mission boffin recalls being told to pronounce it correctly

It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the first and, so far, only flyby of the planet Uranus. The resulting trove of data, however, was a bonus that almost didn't happen.…

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Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever

Tue, 2026-01-27 09:30
Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock

Gartner is warning Salesforce users that a capped enterprise agreement for its AI and data platforms will not be available when they come to renew, leaving a struggle to predict costs and understand value.…

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Crossrail? More like Borkrail...

Tue, 2026-01-27 07:30
A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! London's Elizabeth Line is the latest thing in urban development (at least as far as the UK is concerned). So it seems appropriate that its borks should be similarly up to date, and its emoticons rotated so the intent cannot be mistaken.…

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Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source

Mon, 2026-01-26 23:51
Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers

Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan recently blamed AI for forcing him to lay off three workers.…

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AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

Mon, 2026-01-26 23:00
The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it

For a decade, AWS's position on multi-cloud was clear: don't.…

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Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign

Mon, 2026-01-26 22:33
Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets

ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.…

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How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Mon, 2026-01-26 21:30
Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI

feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…

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Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power

Mon, 2026-01-26 21:09
Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims

Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new in-house AI accelerator to rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs.…

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US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day

Mon, 2026-01-26 20:34
The new US-based joint venture blamed a datacenter power outage, but hasn’t elaborated

TikTok's new life under majority American ownership is off to a rough start, after users complained of widespread service disruptions the company blamed on a datacenter power outage.…

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Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps

Mon, 2026-01-26 19:15
An official Model Context Protocol extension

Anthropic's Claude can now present the interfaces of other applications within its chat window, thanks to an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).…

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Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Mon, 2026-01-26 18:56
But CEOs remain frozen in place

More than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.…

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AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup

Mon, 2026-01-26 17:37
Points to a use-case problem

AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…

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Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity

Mon, 2026-01-26 17:16
Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong

Agents may be the next big thing in AI, but they have limits beyond which they will make mistakes, so exercise extreme caution, a recent research paper says.…

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Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself

Mon, 2026-01-26 15:56
Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages

The internet spent the closing months of 2025 being knocked over by cut cables, broken power grids, bad weather, military strikes, and the occasional self-inflicted technical wound, according to Cloudflare's latest global traffic data.…

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KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd

Mon, 2026-01-26 15:45
Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work

KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…

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Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

Mon, 2026-01-26 15:35
Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations

Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…

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Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler

Mon, 2026-01-26 14:38
The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home

Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the 1990s shooter running in a computer-aided design (CAD) modeler.…

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