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)

PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

(2026/02/20)

About 100 customers affected



Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

(2026/02/20)

Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear



AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

(2026/02/20)

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack



SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

(2026/02/20)

Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming



Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

(2026/02/20)

Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute



ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

(2026/02/20)

What happens in Vegas…



Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

(2026/02/20)

Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'



Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

(2026/02/20)

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption



Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

(2026/02/20)

Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence



Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

(2026/02/20)

Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations



Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

(2026/02/20)

Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort



Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

(2026/02/20)

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs



EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs

(2026/02/20)

'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return



CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug

(2026/02/20)

Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign



From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

(2026/02/20)

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'



Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets

(2026/02/20)

Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas



Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

(2026/02/20)

Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant



HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears

(2026/02/20)

About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April



Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

(2026/02/20)

On Call And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture



Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

(2026/02/20)

Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionary



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Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these
days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate
with the people they love; Husbands and wives who can't communicate, children
who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in
these books and plays and so on (and in real life, I might add) spend hours
bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't
communicate, the very _____least he can do is to shut up!
-- Tom Lehrer, "That Was the Year that Was"