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)

UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

(2026/02/24)

Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal



KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

(2026/02/24)

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die



Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders

(2026/02/24)

Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks



West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

(2026/02/24)

Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision



Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference

(2026/02/24)

Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost



UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

(2026/02/24)

Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest



Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

(2026/02/24)

We like our surface-to-air weapons affordable



Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI

(2026/02/24)

Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive



Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?

(2026/02/24)

Logowatch As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand



Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content – just like it did

(2026/02/24)

Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models



IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

(2026/02/24)

Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2023



ICE watchers say agents used software to threaten and follow them home

(2026/02/23)

'This is a warning. We know you live right here'



Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is

(2026/02/23)

What do Taylor Swift and Drake's release days have to do with road deaths? More than you’d think



Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load

(2026/02/23)

Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage



Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says

(2026/02/23)

Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works



Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker

(2026/02/23)

ai-pocalypse Not the first of its kind



Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

(2026/02/23)

Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts



Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI

(2026/02/23)

Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance



Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay

(2026/02/23)

Sending humans around the Moon in February , er, March - now April 2026, maybe



Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

(2026/02/23)

Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws



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