Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people (2026/02/17) Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog (2026/02/17) Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays
GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept (2026/02/17) Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost (2026/02/17) Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors (2026/02/17) To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required
AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances (2026/02/17) Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news (2026/02/16) Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake (2026/02/16) Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks (2026/02/16) Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised (2026/02/16) Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI (2026/02/16) AI-pocalypse Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load (2026/02/16) 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security (2026/02/16) fosdem 2026 Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch (2026/02/16) Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation (2026/02/16) opinion The subtractive bias we're ignoring
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line (2026/02/16) Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry
NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results (2026/02/16) Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface (2026/02/16) High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? (2026/02/16) Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress (2026/02/16) Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it