Saturday, February 14, 2026 11:15 AM ET
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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 over20 hours ago
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder14 hours ago
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too -- As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough9 hours 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?5 hours 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 often4 hours ago
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents -- Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?1 hour 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 accelerators1 hour ago
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 -- As if admins haven't had enough to do this week1 hour ago
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract -- Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform1 hour 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 over22 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 idea2 days ago
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too -- As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough16 hours ago
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request -- Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way1 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 -- Applications3 hours ago
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them -- Just ask DeepSeek -- AI + ML5 hours 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 -- Networks7 hours 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 -- Systems15 hours 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 - 14 Feb 2026 - |9 hours 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 + ML18 hours 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 -- Systems18 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 physics -- Public Sector21 hours ago
AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze -- Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure -- Systems21 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 costs -- Storage1 day ago
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns -- AI + ML1 day ago
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 complex1 day ago
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters -- Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory -- Systems1 day ago
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny -- Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad -- Personal Tech1 day 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 + ML1 day ago
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit -- Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission -- Science1 day ago
ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach - Offbeat - 13 Feb 2026 - | 175 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 -- Networks1 day 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-crime1 day 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 - | 336 hours ago
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration -- Updated -- Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport -- Science1 day ago
The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 202718 hours ago
The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits1 day ago
Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive2 days ago
Attending GTC? Join Us For An Exclusive Roundtable Dinner On AI Data Platforms2 days ago
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography - FOSDEM 2026 - Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer22 hours 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 - 13 Feb 2026 - | 41 day 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 - |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 - | 1217 hours ago
Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming6 hours ago
Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 151 day ago
JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that "TypeScript has won"1 day ago
Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI4 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 Content3 days ago
Storage news ticker - 13 February 202618 hours ago
Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming23 hours ago
Lenovo restructures ISG unit after quarter driven by AI growth1 day ago
More storage supply chain pain incoming: Oh no, not NOR too1 day 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 -- Offbeat1 day ago
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution' -- 12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards -- AI + ML2 days ago
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation -- Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance -- Software2 days ago
What to expect from this year's NVIDIA GTC conference - NVIDIA's flagship event is just around the corner - Sponsored Post4 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-crime2 days ago
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree -- DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock -- Personal Tech2 days ago
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission -- Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine -- Science2 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-crime2 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 - Software - 12 Feb 2026 - | 1221 hour ago
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks -- Legal teeth sold separately -- Networks2 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 Sector2 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 Sector2 days ago
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs -- Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise -- Cyber-crime2 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 - | 581 day 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 -- Networks2 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 + ML2 days ago
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI - Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence5 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.8 days ago
AI is coming to solve your system outages -- The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be?10 days ago
What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? -- Do TOPS trump everything else?10 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 -- Systems2 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 -- Security2 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 Tech2 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 -- Systems2 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 + ML2 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 -- Networks2 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 -- Research2 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 Content10 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 + ML2 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 20262 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 20262 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 -- 11 Feb 20262 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 Sector3 days ago
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 -- Has the OS also jumped the shark? -- OSes3 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 Sector3 days 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 - | 1823 hours ago
Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live -- Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions -- SaaS3 days ago
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 -- Virtualization3 days ago
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 -- Security3 days ago
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-Prem2 days ago