The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
Open Source Policy Summit 2026
That's not a good idea
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much
Opinion
Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
Hands-on Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course
Applications14 Feb 2026 | 16
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them
Just ask DeepSeek
AI + ML14 Feb 2026 | 11
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 | 9
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 | 15
ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company
News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”
SaaS14 Feb 2026 |
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college
By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to program
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 22
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 | 1
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
As if admins haven't had enough to do this week
Patches13 Feb 2026 | 5
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 | 23
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 | 14
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown
Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 33
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
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 11
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny
Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad
Personal Tech13 Feb 2026 | 15
Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace
$380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why not
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 9
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit
Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission
Science13 Feb 2026 | 3
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Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach
Offbeat13 Feb 2026 | 18
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 | 27
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper
Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouched
Cyber-crime13 Feb 2026 | 6
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much
Opinion Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 75
BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street
Episode 3 Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames
BOFH13 Feb 2026 | 33
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration
Updated Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport
Science13 Feb 2026 | 17
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 | 70
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
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 |
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents
Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 14
AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO
ai-pocalypse Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030
AI + ML13 Feb 2026 | 12
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data
Are you a good bot or a bad bot?
Security12 Feb 2026 | 14
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
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night
And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won’t be needed quite so often
AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 18
Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming
Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 15
JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that "TypeScript has won"
Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI
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AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way
AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 49
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough
Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 12
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 | 4
$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by
Not-onamous by a long shot
Offbeat12 Feb 2026 | 41
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'
12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards
AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 53
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation
Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance
Software12 Feb 2026 | 12
What to expect from this year’s NVIDIA GTC conference
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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
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission
Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine
Science12 Feb 2026 | 3
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy
Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle
Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 2
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
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Software12 Feb 2026 | 122
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks
Legal teeth sold separately
Networks12 Feb 2026 | 27
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 | 62
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs
Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise
Cyber-crime12 Feb 2026 | 9
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 | 58
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
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust
Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices
AI + ML12 Feb 2026 | 17
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Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill
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Systems12 Feb 2026 | 8
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers
Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says
Security11 Feb 2026 | 7
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 | 24
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AI + ML11 Feb 2026 | 27
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
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn
The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering
Research11 Feb 2026 | 11
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Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Offbeat11 Feb 2026 | 46
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it
No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now
OSes11 Feb 2026 | 11
Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up
Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent
Security11 Feb 2026 | 33
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
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95
Has the OS also jumped the shark?
OSes11 Feb 2026 | 45
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 | 43
Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks
Exclusive Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech
Cyber-crime11 Feb 2026 | 18
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
VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute
Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany
Virtualization11 Feb 2026 | 13
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor
Security11 Feb 2026 | 76
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
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