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)

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

(2026/02/09)

Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year



Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

(2026/02/09)

Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed



Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

(2026/02/09)

West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours



SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city

(2026/02/09)

FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan



Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

(2026/02/09)

Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers



Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

(2026/02/09)

Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier



Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

(2026/02/09)

Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in



How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

(2026/02/09)

FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer



Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

(2026/02/09)

Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent



BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

(2026/02/09)

UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate



European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend

(2026/02/09)

Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity



Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty

(2026/02/09)

FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all



The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation

(2026/02/09)

Opinion Sudo make me a star



Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

(2026/02/09)

Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility



Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

(2026/02/09)

Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth



Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

(2026/02/09)

Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!



Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

(2026/02/09)

But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies



Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

(2026/02/08)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more



This dev made a Llama with three inference engines

(2026/02/08)

Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript



Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

(2026/02/08)

Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles



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