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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

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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 -- Science

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

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Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it - OSes - 16 Feb 2026 - | 11

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

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

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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

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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 - | 5

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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

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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 - | 10

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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

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

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

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

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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 - | 25

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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-crime

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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 + ML

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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 - | 14

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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 + ML

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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 idea

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits

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Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive

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Attending GTC? Join Us For An Exclusive Roundtable Dinner On AI Data Platforms

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming

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

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

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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 + ML

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Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit -- Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission -- Science

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Storage news ticker - 13 February 2026

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Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming

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Lenovo restructures ISG unit after quarter driven by AI growth

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More storage supply chain pain incoming: Oh no, not NOR too

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ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach - Offbeat - 13 Feb 2026 - | 27

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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

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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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BOFH - : Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street - Episode 3 - Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames - BOFH - 13 Feb 2026 - | 56

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Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration -- Updated -- Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport -- Science

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

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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

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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 - |

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30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data -- Are you a good bot or a bad bot? -- Security

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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

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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 + ML

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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 + ML

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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?

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

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Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too -- As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough -- Cyber-crime

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

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$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 -- Offbeat

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Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution' -- 12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards -- AI + ML

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'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation -- Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance -- Software

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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

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

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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

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NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission -- Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine -- Science

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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-crime

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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 - | 60

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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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