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)

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

(2026/02/11)

FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?



Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach

(2026/02/11)

UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak



As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’

(2026/02/11)

The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game



Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

(2026/02/11)

Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections



Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

(2026/02/11)

Just change the name to C AI sco already, Chuck



AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

(2026/02/11)

'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox'



Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

(2026/02/11)

Great time to be a liquid cooling startup



Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes

(2026/02/10)

Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching



Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

(2026/02/10)

Someday



AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim

(2026/02/10)

Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussion



Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip

(2026/02/10)

Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agent



AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links

(2026/02/10)

Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn



Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

(2026/02/10)

CFO and general counsel both step down



AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it

(2026/02/10)

APRICOT 2026 As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion



Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill

(2026/02/10)

As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansion



Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

(2026/02/10)

Updated More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system



Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

(2026/02/10)

Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives



Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks

(2026/02/10)

Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry



GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

(2026/02/10)

Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack



Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores

(2026/02/10)

Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access



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