Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos - On Call - And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture - On-Prem - 20 Feb 2026 - | 57

10 minutes ago

Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed - Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption - Databases - 20 Feb 2026 - |

1 hour ago

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play -- Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort -- PaaS + IaaS

1 hour ago

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame -- Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs -- Storage

2 hours ago

CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug -- Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign -- Patches

4 hours ago

Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets -- Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas -- Systems

5 hours ago

HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears -- About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

India's top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook -- Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement - Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops - Public Sector - 19 Feb 2026 - |

21 hours ago

How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation - HPE designs storage with AI realities in mind - Partner Content

7 hours ago

US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians -- Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms -- On-Prem

1 day ago

AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it -- Study of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years -- It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper -- Storage

1 day ago

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 -- Systems

1 day ago

Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist investigation -- Starmer orders inquiry after Labour Together commissioned dossier on reporters -- Public Sector

2 days ago

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 -- Software

2 days ago

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years -- The DECwriter got me hooked in 1975. 'Clawdine' feels like a wonderful new beginning

23 hours ago

DOGE bites taxman -- IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

14 hours ago

ShinyHunters claims it drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records -- Latest in a rash of grab-and-leak data incidents

17 hours ago

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read -- Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that...

22 hours ago

Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes -- National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours

6 hours ago

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours -- 'Why not 12?' says lawyer

5 hours ago

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases -- Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM

1 hour ago

Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say -- 'First time we have detected a crime using this method,' cops say

1 hour ago

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities -- State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam

1 hour ago

Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best -- You told me not to write it on a Post-it...

49 minutes ago

Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia -- Report warns delayed rollouts could widen capability gap as new standards emerge -- Networks

2 days ago

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 Tech

2 days ago

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 -- Security

2 days ago

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 Sector

2 days ago

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 + ML

2 days ago

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-Prem

2 days ago

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 -- Systems

2 days ago

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 -- Storage

2 days ago

AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas -- Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can -- Systems

2 days ago

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools -- Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated? -- AI + ML

2 days ago

£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 Sector

3 days ago

All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job -- $200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater' -- Public Sector

3 days ago

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 Tech

3 days ago

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 + ML

3 days ago

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 -- Security

3 days ago

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 Sector

3 days ago

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost -- Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles...and Red Hat -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors -- To advance the 'ambient internet of things' – no batteries required -- Networks

3 days ago

You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised -- Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options -- Security

4 days ago

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load -- 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise -- Off-Prem

4 days ago

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch -- Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? -- Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it -- OSes

4 days ago

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress -- Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it -- OSes

4 days ago

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 Tech

4 days ago

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 Sector

4 days ago

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 -- Virtualization

4 days ago

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 Sector

4 days ago

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 -- Networks

6 days ago

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 -- Systems

6 days ago

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 -- Systems

6 days ago

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 Sector

6 days ago

AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze -- Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure -- Systems

6 days ago

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 -- Storage

7 days ago

US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters -- Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory -- Systems

7 days ago

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny -- Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad -- Personal Tech

7 days ago

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 -- Networks

7 days ago

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder -- On-Prem

7 days ago

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 -- Networks

7 days ago

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 - Systems - 13 Feb 2026 - |

7 days ago

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 - Systems - 12 Feb 2026 - | 7

7 days ago

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract -- Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware -- Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals' -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree -- DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks -- Legal teeth sold separately -- Networks

8 days ago

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 Sector

8 days ago

The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X -- Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing -- Public Sector

8 days ago

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 - Networks - 12 Feb 2026 - | 62

2 days ago

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 -- Networks

8 days ago

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill -- Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story -- Systems

8 days ago

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 Tech

8 days ago

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 -- Systems

8 days ago

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 -- Networks

8 days ago

Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones -- Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements -- Public Sector

9 days ago

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 Sector

9 days ago

Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live -- Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions -- SaaS

9 days ago

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-Prem

9 days ago

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 Tech - 11 Feb 2026 - | 57

6 days ago

Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach -- UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak -- Security

9 days ago

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 + ML

9 days ago

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 + IoT - 11 Feb 2026 - |

9 days ago

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie -- Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck -- Networks

9 days ago

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 -- Systems

9 days ago

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency -- Someday -- Science

9 days ago

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave -- CFO and general counsel both step down -- On-Prem

9 days ago

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 - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 2

8 days ago

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-Prem

10 days ago

Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks -- Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry -- Cyber-crime

10 days ago

Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores -- Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

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 - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 34

4 days ago

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 -- AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity -- On-Prem

10 days ago

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 Sector

10 days ago

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter -- Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears -- HPC

10 days ago

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 - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - |

10 days ago

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 - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 41

6 days ago

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-Prem

10 days ago

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! -- ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

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-crime

11 days ago

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 + IaaS - 09 Feb 2026 - | 9

9 days ago

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere -- Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier -- Systems

11 days ago

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 + ML

11 days ago