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)

KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI

(2026/02/16)

AI-pocalypse Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine



X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

(2026/02/16)

'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise



Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

(2026/02/16)

fosdem 2026 Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money



Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

(2026/02/16)

Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet



Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

(2026/02/16)

opinion The subtractive bias we're ignoring



FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line

(2026/02/16)

Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry



NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results

(2026/02/16)

Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off



Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface

(2026/02/16)

High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox



Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

(2026/02/16)

Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it



Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

(2026/02/16)

Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it



Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

(2026/02/16)

Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push



DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch

(2026/02/16)

Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaul



Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

(2026/02/16)

The software doesn't show what files it's working on



Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed

(2026/02/16)

Opinion Great concept, shame about the details



Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

(2026/02/16)

Who, Me? 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job



Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative

(2026/02/16)

Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud



US appears open to reversing some China tech bans

(2026/02/16)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more



OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

(2026/02/16)

Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’



Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ

(2026/02/16)

Infosec in Brief PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more



GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

(2026/02/15)

ai-pocalypse But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice



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Only a fool fights in a burning house.
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