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)

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

(2026/02/12)

Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story



Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

(2026/02/11)

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says



Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

(2026/02/11)

Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed



Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

(2026/02/11)

Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue



AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

(2026/02/11)

Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster



T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

(2026/02/11)

This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved



Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn

(2026/02/11)

The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering



Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms

(2026/02/11)

Promo Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice



Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

(2026/02/11)

Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar



Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it

(2026/02/11)

No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now



Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up

(2026/02/11)

Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent



Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones

(2026/02/11)

Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements



How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

(2026/02/11)

Has the OS also jumped the shark?



Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

(2026/02/11)

200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust



Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks

(2026/02/11)

Exclusive Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech



Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live

(2026/02/11)

Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions



VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute

(2026/02/11)

Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany



Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

(2026/02/11)

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor



Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

(2026/02/11)

Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push



River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management

(2026/02/11)

FOSDEM 2026 Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on



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