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Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
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Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks
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You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
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KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI
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AI + ML16 Feb 2026 | 9
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load
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Off-Prem16 Feb 2026 | 22
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
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Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch
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Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
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AI + ML16 Feb 2026 | 50
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line
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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
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Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed
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AI + ML16 Feb 2026 | 12
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AI + ML15 Feb 2026 | 61
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station
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If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?
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Applications14 Feb 2026 | 69
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them
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AI + ML14 Feb 2026 | 48
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them
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Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming
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Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
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ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company
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SaaS14 Feb 2026 | 5
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college
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AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 48
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Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
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Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives
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Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy
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Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown
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US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
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Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace
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AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 14
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit
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OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much
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