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)

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

(2026/02/18)

GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs



Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'

(2026/02/18)

Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans



You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

(2026/02/18)

No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore



Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz

(2026/02/18)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Passenger info display takes scenic detour via desktop and pending updates



Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia

(2026/02/18)

Report warns delayed rollouts could widen capability gap as new standards emerge



HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI

(2026/02/18)

CEO lauds security researchers, insists they're not 'inputs'



Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

(2026/02/18)

Exclusive Apologizes for 'inaccuracy'



Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

(2026/02/18)

Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible



Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case

(2026/02/18)

Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose



Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet

(2026/02/18)

Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next



Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build

(2026/02/18)

PM Modi tells citizens AI will lift them up, not take their jobs



Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst

(2026/02/18)

Version 4.6 can also be 'warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny'



China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection

(2026/02/18)

Full scale of infections remains 'unknown'



Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

(2026/02/17)

Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up



Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow

(2026/02/17)

It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much



Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic

(2026/02/17)

After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model



China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'

(2026/02/17)

Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year



GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale

(2026/02/17)

CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years



AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD

(2026/02/17)

Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home



AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas

(2026/02/17)

Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can



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