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)

Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse

(2026/02/23)

opinion The only good password is no password at all



Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

(2026/02/23)

Who, Me? Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into production



NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate

(2026/02/23)

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help



Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them

(2026/02/23)

Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s sword-wielding humanoid robots; Australian court swamped by AI filings; Vietnam’s 25km overwater drone delivery; And more!



Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day

(2026/02/23)

Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings



Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

(2026/02/23)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And more



UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

(2026/02/22)

Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debate



Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers

(2026/02/21)

Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act



Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

(2026/02/21)

Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers



SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

(2026/02/21)

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'



The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

(2026/02/21)

opinion The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand



PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

(2026/02/20)

About 100 customers affected



Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

(2026/02/20)

Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear



AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

(2026/02/20)

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack



SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

(2026/02/20)

Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming



Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

(2026/02/20)

Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute



ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

(2026/02/20)

What happens in Vegas…



Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

(2026/02/20)

Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'



Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

(2026/02/20)

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption



Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

(2026/02/20)

Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence



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