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)

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



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What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be
broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality
is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct.
-- R. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"