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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder -- The end isn't nigh after all

1 day ago

Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees -- Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling

5 hours ago

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips -- Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage

5 hours ago

Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint -- Rhapsody in beige

5 hours ago

Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend - interview - AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone - AI + ML - 07 Feb 2026 - | 9

5 hours ago

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm -- Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation -- Offbeat

10 hours ago

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines -- Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown -- Networks

13 hours ago

Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI -- There's about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today's limits -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP -- Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend -- AI + ML

1 day ago

DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records -- UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services -- Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices -- Applications

1 day ago

CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in -- A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways -- Networks

1 day ago

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files - Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors

1 day ago

Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook -- Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit -- Science

1 day ago

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom - AI-pocalypse - Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income - Public Sector - 06 Feb 2026 - | 31

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Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start -- OSes

1 day ago

Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees -- Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped -- CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump -- SaaS

1 day ago

With GenAI Turbochargers, Google Is Shifting Its Cloud Into A Higher Gear

2 days ago

AMD Finally Makes More Money On GPUs Than CPUs In A Quarter

3 days ago

Dassault And Nvidia Bring Industrial World Models To Physical AI

3 days ago

TACC Explores Mixed Precision And FP64 Emulation For HPC With Horizon

4 days ago

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say - UPDATED - LLMs automated most phases of the attack

1 day ago

OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform -- IPO, we're halfway there: AI, livin' on a prayer -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach -- Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries -- And their toolkit includes a new, Linux kernel rootkit -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station -- What about storing it in high orbit? -- Science

2 days ago

Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials -- The Claude maker wants you to know about ChatGPT's ad plans -- AI + ML

2 days ago

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites -- The FCC is taking public comments - now's your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds -- As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade -- Databases

2 days ago

Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

2 days ago

Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills

2 days ago

Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

2 days ago

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

2 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 Content

4 days ago

Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack -- Breach-tracking site flags dataset following impersonation-based intrusion -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI -- Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well? -- AI + ML

2 days ago

UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert -- Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years -- AI + ML

2 days ago

StreamFast: stream arbitrary length data to SSDs with device-assigned addresses and no FTL

1 day ago

BDT tape library transparently runs pilot holographic storage drive

1 day ago

VAST Data plans funding round so early stock holders can get cash

2 days ago

Cohesity deepens Google Cloud integration

2 days ago

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files -- AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents -- Storage

2 days ago

Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite -- Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics -- Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Why native cloud security falls short - Your cloud security must stand alone - Partner Content

5 days ago

n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix -- Patch meant to close a severe expression bug fails to stop attackers with workflow access -- Security

2 days ago

CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit -- FOSDEM 2026 -- The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize -- OSes

2 days ago

Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern -- Interview -- Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog -- 37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI -- Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door -- It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect -- Security

2 days ago

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar -- Picks chap who used to lead Redmond's security, lures replacement from Google -- Software

2 days ago

AI's lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it -- On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year -- With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing -- Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says -- Legal

2 days ago

Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day -- Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations team -- SaaS

3 days ago

Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame -- RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell us -- AI + ML

3 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.

1 day ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security -- Scanning the future

22 days ago

Positron: we don't need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia's Rubin -- Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators -- Systems

3 days ago

Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge -- As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trust -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack -- US agencies told to patch by Friday -- Patches

3 days ago

Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS -- The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionality -- SaaS

3 days ago

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder -- The end isn't nigh after all

1 day ago

OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks -- Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty

22 hours ago

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor - On Call - Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands

11 hours ago

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer -- System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander

8 hours ago

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips -- Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage

7 hours ago

Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint -- Rhapsody in beige

8 hours ago

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs -- Marketing stunt backfires with creators

3 hours ago

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem -- 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

4 hours ago

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party -- Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

2 hours ago

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat -- West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates

3 hours ago

US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes -- Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threats -- Science

3 days ago

Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices -- Silicon manufacturing issues to blame -- Systems

3 days ago

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft -- Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Seven habits that help security teams reduce risk without slowing delivery - The right habits change everything - Sponsored Post

9 days ago

Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes -- Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day -- Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workers -- AI + ML

3 days ago

UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35 -- CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows -- After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist -- OSes

3 days ago

EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering -- Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports -- Software

3 days ago

Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach -- Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears -- Security

3 days ago

SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly -- Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket -- Science

3 days ago

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP - Open Source Policy Summit 2026 - Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech - Software - 04 Feb 2026 - | 147

9 hours ago

AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking - Exclusive - Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech - PaaS + IaaS - 04 Feb 2026 - | 22

2 days ago

Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately -- Bring your own sound effects to a Technic-enabled Space Launch System -- Offbeat

3 days ago

UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law -- As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk's response shows regulators keep looking his way -- Legal

3 days ago

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings -- As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool 'comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk' and urges admins to snuff it out -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago