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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