X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops (2026/02/03) Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's corner
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home (2026/02/03) Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections
Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator (2026/02/03) DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges
UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything (2026/02/03) AI-pocalypse South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with £500K seed funding
Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along (2026/02/03) Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs
NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test (2026/02/03) This is starting to sound oddly familiar
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire' (2026/02/03) Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe
British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases (2026/02/03) Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough (2026/02/03) Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam (2026/02/03) Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun (2026/02/03) Burning Man woo woo values House of Grok at $250 billion
Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor (2026/02/03) The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs
Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 (2026/02/02) Second price increase in just two months
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh (2026/02/02) Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter
There's nothing micro about this super-sized Arduino Uno (2026/02/02) It's 7x the size of the regular board
Want more ads on your web pages? Try the AdBoost extension (2026/02/02) 'If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work'
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit (2026/02/02) NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4
StopICE hacked to send alarming text messages, admins accuse border patrol agent of sabotage (2026/02/02) The ICE-tracking service says it doesn't store usernames or addresses
Russia-linked APT28 attackers already abusing new Microsoft Office zero-day (2026/02/02) Ukraine’s CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics (2026/02/02) Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in