Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK (2026/02/16) Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push
DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch (2026/02/16) Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaul
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (2026/02/16) The software doesn't show what files it's working on
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed (2026/02/16) Opinion Great concept, shame about the details
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead (2026/02/16) Who, Me? 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative (2026/02/16) Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans (2026/02/16) Asia In Brief PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents (2026/02/16) Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ (2026/02/16) Infosec in Brief PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down (2026/02/15) ai-pocalypse But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station (2026/02/15) Bork!Bork!Bork! It must be that fresh mountain air
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? (2026/02/15) What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows (2026/02/14) Hands-on Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them (2026/02/14) Just ask DeepSeek
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them (2026/02/14) APRICOT 2026 The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production (2026/02/14) Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year
ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company (2026/02/14) News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college (2026/02/13) By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program
Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM (2026/02/13) Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 (2026/02/13) As if admins haven't had enough to do this week