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)

Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud!

(2026/02/10)

Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game



OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

(2026/02/10)

ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US



Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

(2026/02/10)

Chaos-inciting fake news right this way



Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how

(2026/02/09)

So many CVEs, so little time



Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree

(2026/02/09)

TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course



AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine

(2026/02/09)

And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details



Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

(2026/02/09)

Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult



'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day

(2026/02/09)

Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.com



Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users

(2026/02/09)

New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances



More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

(2026/02/09)

By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it



Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

(2026/02/09)

AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator



AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble

(2026/02/09)

Latest evidence that the world has gone mad



Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture

(2026/02/09)

Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned



Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

(2026/02/09)

Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year



Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

(2026/02/09)

Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed



Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

(2026/02/09)

West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours



SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city

(2026/02/09)

FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan



Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

(2026/02/09)

Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers



Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

(2026/02/09)

Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier



Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

(2026/02/09)

Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in



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