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)

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Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

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Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar



Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it

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No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now



Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up

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Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent



Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones

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Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements



How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

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Has the OS also jumped the shark?



Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

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200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust



Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks

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Exclusive Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech



Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live

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Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions



VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute

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Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany



Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

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Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor



Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

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Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push



River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management

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FOSDEM 2026 Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on



Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

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FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?



Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach

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UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak



As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’

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The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game



Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

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Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections



Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

(2026/02/11)

Just change the name to C AI sco already, Chuck



AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

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'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox'



Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

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Great time to be a liquid cooling startup



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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin
with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
II:
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would
probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
III:
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
IV:
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
V:
One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output.
Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average
output.
-- Norman Augustine