How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 -- Has the OS also jumped the shark?

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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

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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

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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

18 hours ago

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

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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

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

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Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs -- Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise -- Cyber-crime

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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 - | 8

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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

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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 + ML

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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

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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 -- Security

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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

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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

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AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds -- Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster -- AI + ML

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler - AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator

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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 -- 11 Feb 2026

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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 -- Research -- 11 Feb 2026

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Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms -- Promo -- Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice -- AI + ML

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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 -- Offbeat

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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 -- OSes

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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 -- Security

18 hours 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

19 hours ago

How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 -- Has the OS also jumped the shark? -- OSes

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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

22 hours ago

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-crime - 11 Feb 2026 - | 10

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

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Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive

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Cisco Doubles Up The Switch Bandwidth To Take On AI Scale Up And Scale Out

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The Greatest AI Show On Earth

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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

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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 -- Virtualization

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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

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River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management -- Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on -- Software

23 hours ago

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer -- If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? -- Personal Tech

23 hours 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

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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

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JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that 'TypeScript has won'

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Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI

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OpenAI Codex app looks beyond the IDE, devs ask why Mac-only?

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Apple embraces agentic AI development with Xcode 26.3

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

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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 - |

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AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show -- 'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox' -- AI + ML

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Nutanix invited inside Dell's Private Cloud

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StreamFast eSSD and the Open Flash Platform

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Simplyblock provides Postgres Git-style branching

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IBM refreshes FlashSystem lineup with faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays

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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

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

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

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Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip -- Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agent -- AI + ML

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

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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

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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

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

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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 - | 32

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

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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.

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

2 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

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

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AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim -- Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussion

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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

13 hours ago

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

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Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security - Updated - More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system

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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability -- Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack

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AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links -- Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn

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Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes -- Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching

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Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach -- HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnel

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Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase -- Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives

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

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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 - |

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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 - | 39

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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 Feb 2026 - | 12

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Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next - Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute, data, and systems design - Partner Content

8 days ago

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

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Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt -- Chaos-inciting fake news right this way -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how -- So many CVEs, so little time -- Cyber-crime

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Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree -- TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course -- AI + ML

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AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine -- And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details -- AI + ML

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'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day -- Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.com -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users -- New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances -- Offbeat

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More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster -- By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it -- Security

2 days ago

AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble -- Latest evidence that the world has gone mad -- AI + ML

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Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture -- Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned -- PaaS + IaaS

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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters -- Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year -- SaaS

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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

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