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)

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



This dev made a Llama with three inference engines

(2026/02/08)

Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript



Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

(2026/02/08)

Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles



Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development

(2026/02/08)

Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles



Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend

(2026/02/07)

interview AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone



Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

(2026/02/07)

Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation



Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

(2026/02/07)

Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown



AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

(2026/02/06)

Marketing stunt backfires with creators



Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI

(2026/02/06)

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits



Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

(2026/02/06)

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend



Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on third party

(2026/02/06)

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns



DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records

(2026/02/06)

UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling



Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint

(2026/02/06)

Rhapsody in beige



Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

(2026/02/06)

System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander



Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services

(2026/02/06)

Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices



CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in

(2026/02/06)

A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways



Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips

(2026/02/06)

Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage



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If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius -- it wasn't a
hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
-- Neil Bogart