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)

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

(2026/02/17)

Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated?



Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper

(2026/02/17)

Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid



Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

(2026/02/17)

Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation



£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

(2026/02/17)

With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo



All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job

(2026/02/17)

$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater'



US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

(2026/02/17)

Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'



Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

(2026/02/17)

Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses



Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

(2026/02/17)

Repo mirrors now open for business



CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

(2026/02/17)

Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance



UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

(2026/02/17)

Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards



Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

(2026/02/17)

Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries



Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

(2026/02/17)

Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays



GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

(2026/02/17)

Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'



MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

(2026/02/17)

Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat



Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

(2026/02/17)

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required



AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances

(2026/02/17)

Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC



Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

(2026/02/16)

Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks



Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

(2026/02/16)

Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs



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



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