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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 - | 7

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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 - | 18

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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

2 hours 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

16 hours ago

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

2 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 idea

1 day 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

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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

1 hour ago

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

1 hour ago

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

2 hours 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

1 hour 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 - 13 Feb 2026 - |

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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

3 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-crime - 13 Feb 2026 - | 2

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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

5 hours ago

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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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 complex

20 hours ago

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

10 hours 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 - |

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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

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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 - 13 Feb 2026 - | 11

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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

17 hours 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

17 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 often -- AI + ML

17 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 way -- AI + ML

18 hours ago

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

19 hours 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

21 hours ago

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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Cisco Doubles Up The Switch Bandwidth To Take On AI Scale Out And Eventually Scale Out

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler - AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator

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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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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"

1 hour ago

Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI

3 days ago

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

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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

2 days ago

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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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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Xinnor's alternative software RAID filer for AI

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Nutanix invited inside Dell's Private Cloud

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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

1 day ago

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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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

1 day 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

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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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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

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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

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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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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.

7 days ago

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

9 days ago

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

9 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 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'

21 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 idea

20 hours 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

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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

12 hours 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

18 hours 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

2 hours 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

13 hours 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

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

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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

21 hours 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 - | 17

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Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live -- Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions -- SaaS

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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 -- Virtualization

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

9 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 -- Security

2 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-Prem

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River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management -- Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on -- Software

2 days ago

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer -- If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach -- UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak -- Security

2 days ago

As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says 'show me the money' -- The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' Because AI won't only run in Big Tech's giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections - Edge + IoT - 11 Feb 2026 - |

2 days ago

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie -- Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck -- Networks

2 days ago

AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show -- 'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox' -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack -- Great time to be a liquid cooling startup -- Systems

2 days ago

Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes -- Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching -- Patches

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Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency -- Someday -- Science

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