ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears

(2026/02/20)

About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April



Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

(2026/02/20)

On Call And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture



Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

(2026/02/20)

Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionary



India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook

(2026/02/20)

Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer



AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

(2026/02/20)

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope



Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

(2026/02/20)

$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit software



NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

(2026/02/19)

Plenty of blame to go around, says Isaacman



Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race

(2026/02/19)

AI model said to show improved reasoning capabilities



Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement

(2026/02/19)

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops



Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs

(2026/02/19)

FBI warns these cyber-physical attacks are on the rise



Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis

(2026/02/19)

From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing



Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking

(2026/02/19)

Opinion A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap



Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices

(2026/02/19)

For now, it might not function outside of a lab



DOGE bites taxman

(2026/02/19)

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup



US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

(2026/02/19)

Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms



DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

(2026/02/19)

Emails show all discussed networking and biz interests with the sex offender throughout the 2010s



AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can

(2026/02/19)

Self-generated skills don't do much for AI agents, study finds, but human-curated skills do



UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

(2026/02/19)

'Why not 12?' says lawyer



Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best

(2026/02/19)

Bork!Bork!Bork! You told me not to write it on a Post-it...



AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it

(2026/02/19)

Study of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should



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