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)

Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

(2026/02/24)

Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing



Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP

(2026/02/24)

SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of



'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

(2026/02/24)

iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production



Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime

(2026/02/24)

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play



North Korea's Lazarus Group targets healthcare orgs with Medusa ransomware

(2026/02/24)

New ransomware of choice, same critical targets



The fix inches closer: Iowa moves farm right-to-repair bill forward

(2026/02/24)

Manufacturers like John Deere have resisted broader access to proprietary repair software



GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold

(2026/02/24)

FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork



Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'

(2026/02/24)

When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off



AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

(2026/02/24)

The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall



Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees

(2026/02/24)

With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a price



Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day

(2026/02/24)

No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites



UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

(2026/02/24)

Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal



KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

(2026/02/24)

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die



Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders

(2026/02/24)

Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks



West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

(2026/02/24)

Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision



Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference

(2026/02/24)

Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost



UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

(2026/02/24)

Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest



Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

(2026/02/24)

We like our surface-to-air weapons affordable



Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI

(2026/02/24)

Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive



Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?

(2026/02/24)

Logowatch As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand



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"If we can't keep this sort of thing out of the kernel, we might as well
pack it up and go run Solaris."

- Larry McVoy