Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal
Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government
Systems18 Feb 2026 |
On-Prem
Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours
Cyber-crime18 Feb 2026 | 3
Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist investigation
Starmer orders inquiry after Labour Together commissioned dossier on reporters
Public Sector18 Feb 2026 | 4
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore
Software18 Feb 2026 | 68
Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia
Report warns delayed rollouts could widen capability gap as new standards emerge
Networks18 Feb 2026 | 20
Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone ‘patent tax’ case
Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose
Personal Tech18 Feb 2026 | 14
Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next
Security18 Feb 2026 | 3
Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build
PM Modi tells citizens AI will lift them up, not take their jobs
Public Sector18 Feb 2026 | 3
Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better
Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up
AI + ML17 Feb 2026 | 38
Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow
It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much
On-Prem17 Feb 2026 | 16
GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale
CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years
Systems17 Feb 2026 | 1
AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD
Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home
Storage17 Feb 2026 | 6
AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas
Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can
Systems17 Feb 2026 | 12
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools
Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated?
AI + ML17 Feb 2026 | 12
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo
Public Sector17 Feb 2026 | 39
All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job
$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater'
Public Sector17 Feb 2026 | 5
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'
Personal Tech17 Feb 2026 | 20
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance
AI + ML17 Feb 2026 | 46
UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards
Security17 Feb 2026 | 62
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog
Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays
Public Sector17 Feb 2026 | 33
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UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'
Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware
Repo mirrors now open for business
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors
To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance
China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection
Full scale of infections remains 'unknown'
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog
Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays
Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better
Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore
China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'
Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year
STORIES
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost
Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat
Offbeat17 Feb 2026 | 21
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors
To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required
Networks17 Feb 2026 | 13
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
Security16 Feb 2026 | 102
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load
'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise
Off-Prem16 Feb 2026 | 28
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch
Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet
Personal Tech16 Feb 2026 | 26
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?
Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it
OSes16 Feb 2026 | 71
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress
Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it
OSes16 Feb 2026 | 63
Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK
Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety push
Personal Tech16 Feb 2026 | 158
DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch
Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaul
Public Sector16 Feb 2026 | 18
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative
Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
Virtualization16 Feb 2026 | 14
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans
Asia In Brief PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And more
Public Sector16 Feb 2026 | 8
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them
APRICOT 2026 The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align
Networks14 Feb 2026 | 25
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year
Systems14 Feb 2026 | 29
Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM
Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 2
Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives
DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics
Public Sector13 Feb 2026 | 43
AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze
Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 3
Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy
Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs
Storage13 Feb 2026 | 20
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 14
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny
Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad
Personal Tech13 Feb 2026 | 17
MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'
Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays
Networks13 Feb 2026 | 34
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats
On Call Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder
On-Prem13 Feb 2026 | 137
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way
APRICOT 2026 Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages
Networks13 Feb 2026 | 4
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned
Systems13 Feb 2026 |
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators
Systems12 Feb 2026 | 7
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract
Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform
Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 5
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'
Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 31
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock
Personal Tech12 Feb 2026 | 24
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks
Legal teeth sold separately
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 28
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals
Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 7
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X
Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing
Public Sector12 Feb 2026 | 66
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators
APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 62
Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care
Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 4
Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill
Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Systems12 Feb 2026 | 8
Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely
Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed
Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 7
Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China
Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue
Systems11 Feb 2026 | 25
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation
This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved
Networks11 Feb 2026 | 12
Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones
Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements
Public Sector11 Feb 2026 | 8
Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder
200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust
Public Sector11 Feb 2026 | 48
Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live
Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions
SaaS11 Feb 2026 | 37
Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues
Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push
On-Prem11 Feb 2026 | 16
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer
FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?
Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 57
Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach
UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak
Security11 Feb 2026 | 17
As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’
The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game
AI + ML11 Feb 2026 | 18
Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'
Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections
Edge + IoT11 Feb 2026 |
Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie
Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck
Networks11 Feb 2026 | 6
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 | 4
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency
Someday
Science10 Feb 2026 | 14
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave
CFO and general counsel both step down
On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 14
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 | 2
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 | 30
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 | 7
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores
Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access
Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 13
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 | 34
Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031
AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity
On-Prem10 Feb 2026 | 16
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 | 38
Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter
Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears
HPC10 Feb 2026 | 33
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 | 41
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 | 12
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!
ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US
Personal Tech10 Feb 2026 | 32
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 | 1
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 | 9
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 | 56
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
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
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 | 24
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation
Opinion Sudo make me a star
Software09 Feb 2026 | 56
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 | 113
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth
Systems09 Feb 2026 | 13
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation
Offbeat07 Feb 2026 | 104
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 | 121
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
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
Rhapsody in beige
Personal Tech06 Feb 2026 | 49
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
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 | 37
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
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 | 159
Netlife Ecuador partners with ZTE to advance smart cloud platform deployment and accelerate smart home innovation
Commercial rollout boosts after-sales efficiency and strengthens smart home security
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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
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