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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 days 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 Sector

50 minutes 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

2 hours 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 -- Security

6 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 + ML - 15 Feb 2026 - | 27

50 minutes ago

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

16 hours ago

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

19 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 course -- Applications

1 day ago

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

1 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 - | 25

50 minutes 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 -- Systems

2 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." -- SaaS

2 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 + ML

2 days 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 idea

1 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 -- Systems

2 days ago

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

2 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 Sector

2 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 -- Systems

2 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 -- Storage

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 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 + ML

2 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 -- Science

2 days ago

ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach - Offbeat - 13 Feb 2026 - | 26

15 hours ago

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

2 days ago

The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits

3 days ago

Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive

4 days ago

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

4 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 completion

1 day 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 -- Networks

2 days 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-crime

2 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 + ML - 13 Feb 2026 - | 89

34 minutes 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 - | 47

1 hour ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 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 -- Networks

3 days ago

Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming

1 day ago

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

2 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 AI

6 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 Content

4 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

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

1 day 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 + ML - 13 Feb 2026 - | 12

2 days ago

Storage news ticker - 13 February 2026

18 hours ago

Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming

2 days ago

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

2 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? -- Security

3 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 -- Systems

3 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 + ML

3 days ago

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

5 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 + ML

3 days ago

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

3 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 Sector

3 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 -- Offbeat

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 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-crime

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 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-crime

3 days ago

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

3 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 Sector

3 days ago

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

6 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.

9 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

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

3 days ago

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

3 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 - | 59

3 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 -- Networks

3 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 + ML

4 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 -- Systems

4 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 -- Security

4 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

12 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 Tech

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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 -- 11 Feb 2026

4 days ago

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 -- 11 Feb 2026

4 days ago

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

4 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago