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)

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds

(2026/02/17)

Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads?



React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

(2026/02/17)

Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser



European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

(2026/02/17)

Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated?



Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper

(2026/02/17)

Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid



Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

(2026/02/17)

Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation



£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

(2026/02/17)

With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo



All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job

(2026/02/17)

$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater'



US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

(2026/02/17)

Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'



Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

(2026/02/17)

Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses



Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

(2026/02/17)

Repo mirrors now open for business



CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

(2026/02/17)

Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance



UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

(2026/02/17)

Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards



Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

(2026/02/17)

Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries



Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

(2026/02/17)

Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays



GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

(2026/02/17)

Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'



MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

(2026/02/17)

Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat



Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

(2026/02/17)

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required



AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances

(2026/02/17)

Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC



Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

(2026/02/16)

Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks



Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

(2026/02/16)

Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs



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