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Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware -- Repo mirrors now open for business

5 hours 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

11 hours 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'

5 hours ago

Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper -- Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid

5 hours 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

41 minutes 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

3 hours ago

Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst -- Version 4.6 can also be 'warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny' -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection - Full scale of infections remains 'unknown' Cyber-crime - 18 Feb 2026 - | 2

41 minutes 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

6 hours 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

7 hours ago

Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic -- After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down' -- Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year -- Cyber-crime

7 hours 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 - 17 Feb 2026 - |

8 hours 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

9 hours 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

9 hours ago

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds -- Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? -- Science

11 hours ago

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

1 day ago

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components -- Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser -- Devops

11 hours ago

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

11 hours ago

Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper -- Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid -- Offbeat

12 hours ago

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL -- Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation -- Databases

12 hours 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

13 hours 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

14 hours 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

15 hours ago

Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid -- Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses -- Cyber-crime

16 hours ago

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware -- Repo mirrors now open for business -- Devops

12 hours 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

17 hours 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

17 hours ago

AI Eats The World, And Most Of Its Flash Storage

8 hours ago

The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 2027

4 days ago

The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits

5 days ago

Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive

6 days ago

BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street - Episode 3 - Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames

1 day ago

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people -- Social media platform's legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries -- AI + ML

18 hours 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

19 hours ago

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept -- Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk' -- Devops

19 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

23 hours ago

AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances -- Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC -- Virtualization

23 hours ago

Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news -- Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

8 hours ago

Anthropic updates to hide Claude's AI actions, devs hate it

8 hours ago

Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming

3 days ago

Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 15

4 days ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise - When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix - Sponsored Feature

13 hours ago

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake -- Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks -- Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset -- Databases

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Suite Studios cuts out proprietary file formats with S3-native streaming

11 hours ago

Dell VP says discrete beats disaggregated storage for AI

8 hours ago

SK Hynix proposes HBM and HBF hybrid for LLM inference

1 day ago

Cubbit powers Swiss cantonal-level sovereign cloud for Ailanto

1 day ago

KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI -- AIpocolypse -- Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine -- AI + ML

1 day ago

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load - 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise - Off-Prem - 16 Feb 2026 - | 26

10 hours ago

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security -- fosdem 2026 -- Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money -- Security

1 day ago

The metrics that matter: a platform engineer's guide to proving value - The clock is ticking for you to demonstrate platform value - Partner Content

6 days ago

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

1 day ago

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - opinion - The subtractive bias we're ignoring - AI + ML - 16 Feb 2026 - | 96

1 hour ago

FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line -- Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results -- Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off -- Science

1 day ago

Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface -- High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox -- Security

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it -- The software doesn't show what files it's working on -- Devops

1 day ago

Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed -- Opinion -- Great concept, shame about the details -- Software

1 day ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead -- Who, Me? -- 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job -- Columnists

1 day ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

8 days ago

Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative -- A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

11 days ago

AI is coming to solve your system outages -- The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be?

13 days ago

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? -- Do TOPS trump everything else?

13 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

1 day 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

2 days ago

OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents -- Whatever comes next will be 'core to OpenAI product offerings' -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ -- Infosec in Brief -- PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more -- Security

2 days ago

GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down -- ai-pocalypse -- But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- It must be that fresh mountain air -- Offbeat

2 days ago

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit? Bootnotes - 15 Feb 2026 - | 159

10 hours ago

What to expect from this year's NVIDIA GTC conference - NVIDIA's flagship event is just around the corner - Sponsored Post

7 days ago

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows -- Hands-on -- Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course -- Applications

3 days ago

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them -- Just ask DeepSeek -- AI + ML

3 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

3 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

4 days ago

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." -- SaaS

4 days ago

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 + ML

4 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

4 days ago

Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 -- As if admins haven't had enough to do this week -- Patches

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 days ago

Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns -- AI + ML

4 days ago