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Internet & Computing The Register 20/01/2026 02:30:11 PM Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase Taiwan’s Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion Systems3 hrs | 1 ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake 7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next Databases11 hrs | 18 Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing Feras Albashiti faces 10 years after $20,000 in sales to undercover agent exposed ransomware ties Cyber-crime12 hrs | 6 Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Software13 hrs | 32 NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket arrives at the launch pad If it all goes wrong, British kids of the '80s might remember an alternative Science14 hrs | 18 Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins Mobile application management updates mean apps could soon be blocked Applications14 hrs | 5 Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK's cyber crew They’re not the most sophisticated, but even simple attacks can lead to costly consequences Cyber-crime15 hrs | 17 Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off OSes15 hrs | 9 Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records Maine filing confirms July attack affected 42,521 employees and job applicants Cyber-crime16 hrs | UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment Public Sector16 hrs | 33 Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out Cyber-crime17 hrs | 27 Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much AI + ML17 hrs | 35 Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines Public Sector18 hrs | 75 Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that Software19 hrs | 70 ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip Security21 hrs | 95 Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact Revenue growth is sluggish, too Channel23 hrs | 9 Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software 'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast AI + ML2 days | 28 Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable Research3 days | 35 S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain Bork!Bork!Bork! Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots Offbeat3 days | 52 Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform? TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive data Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow AI + ML3 days | 79 Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction Public Sector3 days | 34 Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself? AI + ML3 days | 25 Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12 Storage3 days | 23 Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug Patches3 days | 107 Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options OSes3 days | 11 Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena' Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons OSes4 days | 64 jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016 Vibe coded applications full of security blunders Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months From AI Ambition to AI Production: Escaping the AI Pilot Trap Everyone wants AI, but the pilots won’t land because the runway was never built Partner Content German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home Cyber-crime4 days | 1 Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check That went well Personal Tech4 days | 112 A window into HBF progress: Engineering prof talks of decade ahead Micron buying Taiwan DRAM fab DNA Data Storage: When the physics work but the economics don’t Storage news ticker – 16 January 2026 Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later Personal Tech4 days | 69 RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug Check Point observes 40K+ attack attempts in 4 hours, with government organizations under fire Cyber-crime4 days | 2 Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust Agency dodges deep cut and mass mission shutdowns, but ambitious red planet plan gets the boot Science4 days | 22 Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage Sponsored Post Researchers scrutinize datacenters' lifecycles, aiming to make them more sustainable Much of the damage done well before first power-on, in bit barns' childhood, says study On-Prem4 days | 2 Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized Security4 days | 60 Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea Opinion For trivial projects, it's fine. For serious work, forget about it AI + ML4 days | 38 BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads Episode 1 Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time BOFH4 days | 57 An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together You can't park there, mate Offbeat4 days | 16 Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue On Call How not to maintain computers On-Prem4 days | 188 Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot AI + ML4 days | 26 TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises AI + ML4 days | 6 OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body AI + ML4 days | 7 Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins Patches4 days | 2 Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink Systems4 days | The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security Scanning the future Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases AI + ML4 days | 25 Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see Cyber-crime4 days | 20 Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required Security4 days | 23 Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt. Systems4 days | 32 Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control Ships emergency update to fix a Patch Tuesday misfire that prevented systems from switching off Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software 'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key Who, Me? Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins Mobile application management updates mean apps could soon be blocked Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that Security4 days | 9 Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster Sponsored Post A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg Research5 days | 12 Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise When margins are this tight, mergers might follow Personal Tech5 days | 8 Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication OSes5 days | 26 US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums Security5 days | 36 Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice Security5 days | 24 Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store. OSes5 days | 122 Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? AI + ML5 days | 26 Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud Cyber-crime5 days | 4 Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine AI + ML5 days | 21 Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment Software5 days | 2 AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands PaaS + IaaS5 days | 72

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