How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography (2026/02/09) FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay (2026/02/09) Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers (2026/02/09) UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend (2026/02/09) Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty (2026/02/09) FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation (2026/02/09) Opinion Sudo make me a star
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office (2026/02/09) Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar (2026/02/09) Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents (2026/02/09) Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 (2026/02/09) But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks (2026/02/08) Infosec In Brief PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more
This dev made a Llama with three inference engines (2026/02/08) Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter (2026/02/08) Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles
Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development (2026/02/08) Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles
Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend (2026/02/07) interview AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm (2026/02/07) Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines (2026/02/07) Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs (2026/02/06) Marketing stunt backfires with creators
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI (2026/02/06) There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP (2026/02/06) Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend