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CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price -- Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance11 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 lid5 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 -- Security41 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 Sector3 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 + ML3 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 - | 241 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 + ML6 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-Prem7 hours ago
Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic -- After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model -- AI + ML7 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-crime7 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 -- Storage9 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 -- Systems9 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? -- Science11 hours ago
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats - On Call - Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder1 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 -- Devops11 hours ago
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools -- Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated? -- AI + ML11 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 -- Offbeat12 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 -- Databases12 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 Sector13 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 Sector14 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 Tech15 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-crime16 hours ago
Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware -- Repo mirrors now open for business -- Devops12 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 + ML17 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 -- Security17 hours ago
AI Eats The World, And Most Of Its Flash Storage8 hours ago
The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 20274 days ago
The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits5 days ago
Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive6 days ago
BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street - Episode 3 - Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames1 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 + ML18 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 Sector19 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' -- Devops19 hours ago
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost -- Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles...and Red Hat -- Offbeat19 hours ago
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors -- To advance the 'ambient internet of things' – no batteries required -- Networks23 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 -- Virtualization23 hours ago
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news -- Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept8 hours ago
Anthropic updates to hide Claude's AI actions, devs hate it8 hours ago
Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming3 days ago
Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 154 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 Feature13 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 -- Offbeat1 day ago
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks -- Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset -- Databases1 day ago
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised -- Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options -- Security1 day ago
Suite Studios cuts out proprietary file formats with S3-native streaming11 hours ago
Dell VP says discrete beats disaggregated storage for AI8 hours ago
SK Hynix proposes HBM and HBF hybrid for LLM inference1 day ago
Cubbit powers Swiss cantonal-level sovereign cloud for Ailanto1 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 + ML1 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 - | 2610 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 -- Security1 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 Content6 days ago
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch -- Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet -- Personal Tech1 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 - | 961 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 + IaaS1 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 -- Science1 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 -- Security1 day ago
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? -- Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it -- OSes1 day ago
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress -- Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it -- OSes1 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 Tech1 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 Sector1 day ago
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it -- The software doesn't show what files it's working on -- Devops1 day ago
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed -- Opinion -- Great concept, shame about the details -- Software1 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 -- Columnists1 day ago
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence8 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 -- Virtualization1 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 Sector2 days ago
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents -- Whatever comes next will be 'core to OpenAI product offerings' -- AI + ML1 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 -- Security2 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 + ML2 days ago
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- It must be that fresh mountain air -- Offbeat2 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 - | 15910 hours ago
What to expect from this year's NVIDIA GTC conference - NVIDIA's flagship event is just around the corner - Sponsored Post7 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 -- Applications3 days ago
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them -- Just ask DeepSeek -- AI + ML3 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 -- Networks3 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 -- Systems4 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." -- SaaS4 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 + ML4 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 -- Systems4 days ago
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 -- As if admins haven't had enough to do this week -- Patches4 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 Sector4 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 -- Systems4 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 -- Storage4 days ago
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns -- AI + ML4 days ago
