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)

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog

(2026/02/05)

37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility



Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI

(2026/02/05)

Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom



Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

(2026/02/05)

It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect



Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

(2026/02/05)

Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google



AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it

(2026/02/05)

On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon



It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

(2026/02/05)

With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house



Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing

(2026/02/05)

Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says



Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day

(2026/02/05)

Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations team



Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame

(2026/02/04)

RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell us



Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin

(2026/02/04)

Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators



AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

(2026/02/04)

UPDATED LLMs automated most phases of the attack



Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge

(2026/02/04)

As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trust



Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack

(2026/02/04)

US agencies told to patch by Friday



Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS

(2026/02/04)

The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionality



US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes

(2026/02/04)

Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threats



Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices

(2026/02/04)

Silicon manufacturing issues to blame



Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft

(2026/02/04)

Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud



Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes

(2026/02/04)

Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward



DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day

(2026/02/04)

Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workers



Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

(2026/02/04)

Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors



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"There is also a thriving independent student movement in
Poland, and thus there is a strong possibility (though no
guarantee) of making an EARN-Poland link, should it ever come
about, a genuine link - not a vacuum cleaner attachment for a
Bloc information gathering apparatus rationed to trusted
apparatchiks."
-- David Phillips, SUNY at Buffalo, about establishing a
gateway from EARN (Eurpoean Academic Research Network)
to Poland