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Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers

(2026/02/21)

Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act



Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

(2026/02/21)

Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers



SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

(2026/02/21)

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'



The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

(2026/02/21)

opinion The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand



PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

(2026/02/20)

About 100 customers affected



Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

(2026/02/20)

Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear



AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

(2026/02/20)

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack



SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

(2026/02/20)

Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming



Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

(2026/02/20)

Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute



ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

(2026/02/20)

What happens in Vegas…



Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

(2026/02/20)

Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'



Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

(2026/02/20)

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption



Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

(2026/02/20)

Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence



Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

(2026/02/20)

Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations



Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

(2026/02/20)

Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort



Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

(2026/02/20)

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs



EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs

(2026/02/20)

'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return



CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug

(2026/02/20)

Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign



From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

(2026/02/20)

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'



Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets

(2026/02/20)

Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas



Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

(2026/02/20)

Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant



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