AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble (2026/02/09) Latest evidence that the world has gone mad
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture (2026/02/09) Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters (2026/02/09) Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks (2026/02/09) Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates (2026/02/09) West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city (2026/02/09) FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite (2026/02/09) Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere (2026/02/09) Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout (2026/02/09) Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography (2026/02/09) FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay (2026/02/09) Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers (2026/02/09) UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend (2026/02/09) Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty (2026/02/09) FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation (2026/02/09) Opinion Sudo make me a star
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office (2026/02/09) Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar (2026/02/09) Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents (2026/02/09) Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 (2026/02/09) But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks (2026/02/08) Infosec In Brief PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more