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)

'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation

(2026/02/12)

Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance



Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

(2026/02/12)

Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'



Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

(2026/02/12)

DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock



NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission

(2026/02/12)

Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine



Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy

(2026/02/12)

Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle



The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

(2026/02/12)

Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea



UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

(2026/02/12)

Legal teeth sold separately



Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend

(2026/02/12)

Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals



The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X

(2026/02/12)

Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing



Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs

(2026/02/12)

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise



Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

(2026/02/12)

APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers



Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

(2026/02/12)

Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting



Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

(2026/02/12)

Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices



Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

(2026/02/12)

Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story



Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

(2026/02/11)

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says



Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

(2026/02/11)

Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed



Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

(2026/02/11)

Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue



AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

(2026/02/11)

Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster



T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

(2026/02/11)

This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved



Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn

(2026/02/11)

The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering



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Treat them as if they were real;
Perhaps they are.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson