SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly (2026/02/04) Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP (2026/02/04) Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking (2026/02/04) Exclusive Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech
Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately (2026/02/04) Bring your own sound effects to a Technic-enabled Space Launch System
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law (2026/02/04) As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his way
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings (2026/02/04) As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters (2026/02/04) Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors (2026/02/04) A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files (2026/02/04) Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash
AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – but they are already very helpful to crims (2026/02/04) Don't relax: This is a 'when, not if' scenario
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (2026/02/03) updated Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop (2026/02/03) updated Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years (2026/02/03) E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in
'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says (2026/02/03) Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void (2026/02/03) Too slow react-ion time
Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin (2026/02/03) DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders (2026/02/03) GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights (2026/02/03) Opinion CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services (2026/02/03) Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform