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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 minute 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 minute ago
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it - OSes - 16 Feb 2026 - | 111 minute ago
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress -- Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with it -- OSes1 hour ago
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it -- The software doesn't show what files it's working on -- Devops3 hours 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 -- Columnists6 hours 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 - 16 Feb 2026 - | 51 minute 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 Sector9 hours ago
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents - Whatever comes next will be 'core to OpenAI product offerings' AI + ML - 16 Feb 2026 - | 101 minute 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 -- Security14 hours ago
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down -- ai-pocalypse -- But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice -- AI + ML23 hours ago
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- It must be that fresh mountain air -- Offbeat1 day ago
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? -- What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit? -- Bootnotes1 day 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 - 14 Feb 2026 - | 259 hours ago
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-crime3 days ago
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 + ML3 days ago
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents - Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? AI + ML - 13 Feb 2026 - | 142 days ago
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 + ML3 days ago
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns3 hours 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 physics3 hours ago
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - Hands-on - Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course3 hours 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 costs3 hours 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 Tech3 hours 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 Sector3 hours ago
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed -- Opinion -- Great concept, shame about the details -- Software4 hours ago
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 idea1 day 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 -- Applications2 days ago
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them -- Just ask DeepSeek -- AI + ML2 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 -- Systems2 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." -- SaaS2 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 + ML2 days ago
The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 20272 days ago
The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits3 days ago
Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive4 days ago
Attending GTC? Join Us For An Exclusive Roundtable Dinner On AI Data Platforms4 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 completion1 day 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 -- Systems2 days ago
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 -- As if admins haven't had enough to do this week -- Patches2 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 Sector2 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 -- Systems2 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 -- Storage2 days ago
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns -- AI + ML2 days ago
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters -- Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory -- Systems2 days ago
Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming2 days ago
Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 153 days ago
JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that "TypeScript has won"2 days ago
Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI6 days ago
The metrics that matter: a platform engineer's guide to proving value - The clock is ticking for you to demonstrate platform value - Partner Content4 days ago
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny -- Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad -- Personal Tech2 days ago
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 + ML2 days ago
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit -- Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission -- Science2 days ago
Storage news ticker - 13 February 20261 day ago
Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming2 days ago
Lenovo restructures ISG unit after quarter driven by AI growth2 days ago
More storage supply chain pain incoming: Oh no, not NOR too2 days ago
ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach - Offbeat - 13 Feb 2026 - | 273 hours 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 -- Networks3 days ago
What to expect from this year's NVIDIA GTC conference - NVIDIA's flagship event is just around the corner - Sponsored Post5 days ago
BOFH - : Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street - Episode 3 - Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames - BOFH - 13 Feb 2026 - | 5611 minutes ago
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration -- Updated -- Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport -- Science3 days ago
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder -- On-Prem3 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 -- Networks3 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 - |3 days ago
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data -- Are you a good bot or a bad bot? -- Security3 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 -- Systems3 days ago
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 + ML3 days ago
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 + ML3 days ago
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence6 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.10 days ago
AI is coming to solve your system outages -- The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be?11 days ago
What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? -- Do TOPS trump everything else?11 days ago
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too -- As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough -- Cyber-crime3 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 Sector3 days ago
$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 -- Offbeat3 days ago
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution' -- 12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards -- AI + ML3 days ago
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation -- Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance -- Software3 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-crime3 days ago
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree -- DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock -- Personal Tech4 days ago
Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next - Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute, data, and systems design - Partner Content12 days ago
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission -- Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine -- Science4 days ago
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-crime4 days ago
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks -- Legal teeth sold separately -- Networks4 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 Sector4 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 Sector4 days ago
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs -- Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise -- Cyber-crime4 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 - | 604 hours 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 -- Networks4 days ago
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 + ML4 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 -- Systems4 days ago
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 -- Security4 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 Tech4 days ago
