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)

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

(2026/02/20)

Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations



Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

(2026/02/20)

Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort



Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

(2026/02/20)

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs



EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs

(2026/02/20)

'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return



CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug

(2026/02/20)

Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign



From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

(2026/02/20)

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'



Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets

(2026/02/20)

Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas



Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

(2026/02/20)

Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant



HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears

(2026/02/20)

About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April



Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

(2026/02/20)

On Call And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture



Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

(2026/02/20)

Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionary



India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook

(2026/02/20)

Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer



AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

(2026/02/20)

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope



Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

(2026/02/20)

$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit software



NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

(2026/02/19)

Plenty of blame to go around, says Isaacman



Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race

(2026/02/19)

AI model said to show improved reasoning capabilities



Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement

(2026/02/19)

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops



Crims hit a $20M jackpot via malware-stuffed ATMs

(2026/02/19)

FBI warns these cyber-physical attacks are on the rise



Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis

(2026/02/19)

From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing



Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking

(2026/02/19)

Opinion A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap



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