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)

Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook

(2026/02/06)

Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit



DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

(2026/02/06)

AI-pocalypse Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income



UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

(2026/02/06)

West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates



Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork

(2026/02/06)

BORK!BORK!BORK! Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start



New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

(2026/02/06)

On Call Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands



Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees

(2026/02/06)

Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling



Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped

(2026/02/06)

CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump



Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

(2026/02/06)

'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy



Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

(2026/02/06)

The end isn't nigh after all



OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks

(2026/02/06)

Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty



OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform

(2026/02/05)

IPO, we’re halfway there: AI, livin’ on a prayer



Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach

(2026/02/05)

Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says



Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries

(2026/02/05)

And their toolkit includes a new, Linux kernel rootkit



Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station

(2026/02/05)

What about storing it in high orbit?



Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials

(2026/02/05)

The Claude maker wants you to know about ChatGPT’s ad plans



SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

(2026/02/05)

The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers



Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds

(2026/02/05)

As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade



Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack

(2026/02/05)

Breach-tracking site flags dataset following impersonation-based intrusion



Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI

(2026/02/05)

Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well?



UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert

(2026/02/05)

Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years



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