Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to top job after turbulent year
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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 | 1
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 | 2
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 | 4
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 Offbeat09 Feb 2026 | 10
'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 | 2
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 | 5
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 | 9
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 | 6
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 | 4
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 |
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to top job after turbulent year SaaS09 Feb 2026 | 3
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
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 | 25
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 | 6
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 | 14
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 | 16
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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 | 18
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 | 133
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity Cyber-crime09 Feb 2026 | 2
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 | 9
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
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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 | 82
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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
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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 | 2
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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 | 4
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Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 20
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DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom AI-pocalypse Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income Public Sector06 Feb 2026 | 34
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates Databases06 Feb 2026 | 53
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Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump SaaS06 Feb 2026 | 17
Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Off-Prem06 Feb 2026 | 41
Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder The end isn't nigh after all Security06 Feb 2026 | 64
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
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
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
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
This dev made a Llama with three inference engines Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript
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
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
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
Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles
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!
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Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 7
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Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries And their toolkit includes a new, Linux kernel rootkit Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 17
Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station What about storing it in high orbit? Science05 Feb 2026 | 49
Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials The Claude maker wants you to know about ChatGPT’s ad plans AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 4
SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers Public Sector05 Feb 2026 | 109
Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade Databases05 Feb 2026 | 7
Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack Breach-tracking site flags dataset following impersonation-based intrusion Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 2
Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well? AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 12
UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 6
Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents Storage05 Feb 2026 | 59
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Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event Cyber-crime05 Feb 2026 | 33
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