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)

OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon

(2026/02/12)

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators



Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night

(2026/02/12)

And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won’t be needed quite so often



AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

(2026/02/12)

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way



Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too

(2026/02/12)

As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough



Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

(2026/02/12)

Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform



$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by

(2026/02/12)

Not-onamous by a long shot



Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

(2026/02/12)

12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards



'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation

(2026/02/12)

Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance



Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

(2026/02/12)

Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'



Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

(2026/02/12)

DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock



NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission

(2026/02/12)

Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine



Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy

(2026/02/12)

Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle



The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

(2026/02/12)

Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea



UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

(2026/02/12)

Legal teeth sold separately



Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend

(2026/02/12)

Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals



The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X

(2026/02/12)

Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing



Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs

(2026/02/12)

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise



Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

(2026/02/12)

APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers



Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

(2026/02/12)

Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting



Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

(2026/02/12)

Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices



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