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)

Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices

(2026/02/19)

For now, it might not function outside of a lab



DOGE bites taxman

(2026/02/19)

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup



US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

(2026/02/19)

Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms



DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

(2026/02/19)

Emails show all discussed networking and biz interests with the sex offender throughout the 2010s



AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can

(2026/02/19)

Self-generated skills don't do much for AI agents, study finds, but human-curated skills do



UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

(2026/02/19)

'Why not 12?' says lawyer



Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best

(2026/02/19)

Bork!Bork!Bork! You told me not to write it on a Post-it...



AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it

(2026/02/19)

Study of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should



Agile Manifesto turns 25 – just in time for vibe coding to test it

(2026/02/19)

Interview Co-author Jon Kern says AI coding tools amplify strengths and expose weaknesses



OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

(2026/02/19)

Opinion The DECwriter got me hooked in 1975. 'Clawdine' feels like a wonderful new beginning



Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases

(2026/02/19)

Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM



Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk

(2026/02/19)

IT services companies are largely immune to AIpocalypse, although the outlook is not good for entry-level jobs



Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years

(2026/02/19)

It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper



Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant

(2026/02/19)

'Potential data protection incident' at an 'independent licensing partner,' we're told



As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered

(2026/02/18)

HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions



Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator

(2026/02/18)

Who needs to express themselves through music when a bot will do it for you with nothing but a prompt?



ShinyHunters claims it drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records

(2026/02/18)

updated Latest in a rash of grab-and-leak data incidents



Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal

(2026/02/18)

Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government



Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

(2026/02/18)

Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that...



DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests

(2026/02/18)

Yo dawg, we heard you like missiles, so we put some missiles in your missile so you can boom while you zoom



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