Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees
Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling
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
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
Rhapsody in beige
Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
The end isn't nigh after all
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 | 13
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation
Offbeat07 Feb 2026 | 37
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 | 49
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs
Marketing stunt backfires with creators
AI + ML06 Feb 2026 | 14
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 | 7
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 | 35
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns
Cyber-crime06 Feb 2026 | 4
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 | 7
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
Rhapsody in beige
Personal Tech06 Feb 2026 | 31
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 | 121
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 | 10
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 | 5
Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files
Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors
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 | 14
Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook
Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit
Science06 Feb 2026 | 22
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 | 31
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 | 47
Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
BORK!BORK!BORK! Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start
OSes06 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
Software06 Feb 2026 | 136
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees
Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling
Off-Prem06 Feb 2026 | 24
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 | 14
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 | 37
Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
The end isn't nigh after all
Security06 Feb 2026 | 47
OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks
Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty
Security05 Feb 2026 | 12
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say
UPDATED LLMs automated most phases of the attack
OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform
IPO, we’re halfway there: AI, livin’ on a prayer
AI + ML05 Feb 2026 | 4
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 | 6
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 | 48
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 | 102
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
Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash
Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills
Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation
OpenAI Codex app looks beyond the IDE, devs ask why Mac-only?
Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next
Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute, data, and systems design
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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
Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite
Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 18
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 | 30
Why native cloud security falls short
Your cloud security must stand alone
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n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix
Patch meant to close a severe expression bug fails to stop attackers with workflow access
Security05 Feb 2026 | 5
CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit
FOSDEM 2026 The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize
OSes05 Feb 2026 | 12
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
Interview Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula
PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2026 | 2
UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog
37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility
On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37
Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI
Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom
On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 13
Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door
It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect
Security05 Feb 2026 | 38
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google
Software05 Feb 2026 | 81
AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it
On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 9
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house
Off-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 16
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing
Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says
Legal05 Feb 2026 | 84
Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day
Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations team
SaaS04 Feb 2026 | 26
Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame
RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell us
AI + ML04 Feb 2026 | 25
Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin
Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5
Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge
As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trust
AI + ML04 Feb 2026 | 7
Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack
US agencies told to patch by Friday
Patches04 Feb 2026 | 4
Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS
The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionality
SaaS04 Feb 2026 | 7
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US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes
Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threats
Science04 Feb 2026 | 10
Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices
Silicon manufacturing issues to blame
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 7
Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft
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Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 22
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Personal Tech04 Feb 2026 | 76
DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day
Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workers
AI + ML04 Feb 2026 | 40
UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35
CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs
Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 31
Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows
After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist
OSes04 Feb 2026 | 25
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering
Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports
Software04 Feb 2026 | 25
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach
Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears
Security04 Feb 2026 | 3
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly
Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket
Science04 Feb 2026 | 9
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech
Software04 Feb 2026 | 147
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking
Exclusive Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech
PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 22
Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately
Bring your own sound effects to a Technic-enabled Space Launch System
Offbeat04 Feb 2026 | 29
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law
As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his way
Legal04 Feb 2026 | 29
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 1
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