Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment APRICOT 2026 Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck Networks11 Feb 2026 |
AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show 'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox' AI + ML11 Feb 2026 |
Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack Great time to be a liquid cooling startup Systems11 Feb 2026 |
Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching Patches10 Feb 2026 | 4
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency Someday Science10 Feb 2026 | 5
AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussion AI + ML10 Feb 2026 | 7
Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agent AI + ML10 Feb 2026 | 1
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn Security10 Feb 2026 | 11
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave CFO and general counsel both step down On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 8
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it APRICOT 2026 As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion Networks10 Feb 2026 |
Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansion On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 22
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system OSes10 Feb 2026 | 32
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter Opinion After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles
Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives Software10 Feb 2026 | 27
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry Cyber-crime10 Feb 2026 | 4
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack Devops10 Feb 2026 | 19
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 12
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment APRICOT 2026 Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more Networks10 Feb 2026 | 19
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnel Cyber-crime10 Feb 2026 | 6
Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 15
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD Public Sector10 Feb 2026 | 31
Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears HPC10 Feb 2026 | 24
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC Networks10 Feb 2026 |
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Networks10 Feb 2026 | 30
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor On Call Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands
Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud! Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game Off-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 11
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 32
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt Chaos-inciting fake news right this way AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 25
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how So many CVEs, so little time Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 5
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 12
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 18
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.com Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 7
JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that 'TypeScript has won'
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Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 10
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it Security09 Feb 2026 | 15
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 38
AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble Latest evidence that the world has gone mad AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 5
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 1
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year SaaS09 Feb 2026 | 6
Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute, data, and systems design Partner Content
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 |
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours OSes09 Feb 2026 | 8
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan Science09 Feb 2026 | 30
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 8
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier Systems09 Feb 2026 | 34
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 19
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer Security09 Feb 2026 | 81
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent Software09 Feb 2026 | 21
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 230
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 3
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all Networks09 Feb 2026 | 20
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation Opinion Sudo make me a star Software09 Feb 2026 | 52
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence
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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility On-Prem09 Feb 2026 | 98
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth Systems09 Feb 2026 | 12
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents Asia In Brief PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more! Legal09 Feb 2026 | 5
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies OSes09 Feb 2026 | 58
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt Chaos-inciting fake news right this way
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks Infosec In Brief PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more Security08 Feb 2026 | 3
This dev made a Llama with three inference engines Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript AI + ML08 Feb 2026 | 4
Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles Science08 Feb 2026 | 20
Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend interview AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone AI + ML07 Feb 2026 | 34
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation Offbeat07 Feb 2026 | 96
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown Networks07 Feb 2026 | 114
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs Marketing stunt backfires with creators AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 29
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits Public Sector06 Feb 2026 | 16
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 46
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on third party Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns Cyber-crime06 Feb 2026 | 5
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling Security06 Feb 2026 | 8
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint Rhapsody in beige Personal Tech06 Feb 2026 | 48
Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 165
Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices Applications06 Feb 2026 | 13
CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways Networks06 Feb 2026 | 6