Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees
Microsoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity.…
UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate
The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.…
KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on
The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD 15.1's installer offers KDE too.…
Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders
Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi.…
West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match
UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making.…
Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference
AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.…
UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze
The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK.…
Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons
Britain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027.…
Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?
Logowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions.…