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AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare

Thu, 2026-01-29 16:58
eScan lawyers up after Morphisec claimed 'critical supply-chain compromise'

A spat has erupted between antivirus vendor eScan and threat intelligence outfit Morphisec over who spotted an update server incident that disrupted some eScan customers earlier this month.…

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Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules

Thu, 2026-01-29 16:33
Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing

The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting US states to host "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses" to revitalize atomic power amid reports the agency has weakened safety rules governing the way nuclear sites operate.…

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Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

Thu, 2026-01-29 16:08
Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS

Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company, Amutable, with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner.…

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IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge

Thu, 2026-01-29 15:43
Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs

IBM's leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies.…

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ShinyHunters swipes right on 10M records in alleged dating app data grab

Thu, 2026-01-29 15:05
Extortion crew says it's found love in someone else's info as Match Group plays down the impact

ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.…

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Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

Thu, 2026-01-29 14:18
Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole

Oracle could cut up to 30,000 jobs and sell health tech unit Cerner to ease its AI datacenter financing challenges, investment banker TD Cown has claimed, amid changing sentiment on Big Red's massive build-out plans.…

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Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy

Thu, 2026-01-29 13:56
Elon thinks taxis and androids will succeed where car sales are stalling

Tesla reported 2025 revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year-on-year and marking the first annual revenue decline since the electric car maker began publishing financial results in 2010.…

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Patch or perish: Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions

Thu, 2026-01-29 13:53
Apply fixes within a few hours or face the music, say the pros

What good is a fix if you don't use it? Experts are urging security teams to patch promptly as vulnerability exploits now account for the majority of intrusions, according to the latest figures.…

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Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

Thu, 2026-01-29 13:37
Terrible start to 2026 offset by optimistic operating system numbers

Microsoft is famously reticent about operating system usage figures unless it has something to boast about. So CEO Satya Nadella stating that Windows 11 had reached one billion users raised a few eyebrows.…

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Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026

Thu, 2026-01-29 13:21
Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge

Meta is to nearly double its capital investments aimed at AI this year, spending more on infrastructure than the entire output of some mid-sized economies, as the AI datacenter feeding frenzy shows no sign of ending.…

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Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment

Thu, 2026-01-29 12:18
'What we are finding is that people hate AI'

Interview Vivaldi has raised a middle finger to the influx of AI in the browser space with its latest version.…

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Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold

Thu, 2026-01-29 12:10
Close call after an apparently deliberate attempt to starve a country of energy at the worst time

Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland's power network say the consequences could have been lethal.…

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Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control

Thu, 2026-01-29 11:59
150-strong 'surge team' deployed as 8,500 retirees left high and dry, some waiting 9 months for legally owed cash

The UK Cabinet Office is being forced to promise "interim support measures" for struggling retired government workers as Capita's botched takeover of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) lurches from bad to worse.…

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Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working

Thu, 2026-01-29 11:05
Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold

Birmingham City Council's SAP-to-Oracle project is set to cost £144.4 million – more than seven times earlier estimates – as it waits for a fully functioning system five years after its planned go-live date.…

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If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Thu, 2026-01-29 10:34
It's not your fault

Opinion It's not your fault Amazon hired you for a position that it no longer deems necessary - blame bad planning or unanticipated market conditions. Everybody guesses wrong sometimes, even with the power of the most sophisticated business analysis software and the smartest prognosticators one can hire.…

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Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers

Thu, 2026-01-29 10:11
The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords

The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.…

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Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl

Thu, 2026-01-29 09:30
Happier days at Intel nailed to the wall of discount retailer

Bork!Bork!Bork! Lidl is a well-known purveyor of inexpensive groceries, random goods via the Middle of Lidl, and now… bork.…

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Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

Thu, 2026-01-29 02:37
All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops

What should have been a banner second quarter for Microsoft was met with tepid apprehension on Wall Street on Wednesday, sending its share price by 6 percent in after-hours trading.…

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Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

Thu, 2026-01-29 00:34
The world’s most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing

Google has reworked its Chrome browser to include a new side panel for interacting with the company's Gemini model, in an effort to support AI-assisted interactions with websites.…

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ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter

Wed, 2026-01-28 22:40
80 billion workflows makes a difference

Though some recent studies cast doubt on the ability of AI agents to complete complex tasks, ServiceNow boasts that its bots are better, because they can rely on 20 years and 80 billion workflows worth of experience. The underlying model, they say, is just a small part of the product.…

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