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)

Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

(2026/02/16)

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset



You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

(2026/02/16)

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options



KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI

(2026/02/16)

AI-pocalypse Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine



X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

(2026/02/16)

'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise



Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

(2026/02/16)

fosdem 2026 Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money



Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

(2026/02/16)

Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet



Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

(2026/02/16)

opinion The subtractive bias we're ignoring



FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line

(2026/02/16)

Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry



NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results

(2026/02/16)

Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off



Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface

(2026/02/16)

High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox



Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

(2026/02/16)

Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it



Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

(2026/02/16)

Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it



Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

(2026/02/16)

Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push



DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch

(2026/02/16)

Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaul



Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

(2026/02/16)

The software doesn't show what files it's working on



Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed

(2026/02/16)

Opinion Great concept, shame about the details



Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

(2026/02/16)

Who, Me? 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job



Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative

(2026/02/16)

Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud



US appears open to reversing some China tech bans

(2026/02/16)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more



OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

(2026/02/16)

Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’



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