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)

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



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