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Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix - On Call - 'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'

2 days ago

BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely - Episode 4 - Oh. Well. Color us surprised

2 days ago

UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame -- Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for it

15 hours ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality - Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

5 days ago

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers -- Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say

15 hours ago

Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool - Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife - Cyber-crime - 27 Feb 2026 - |

2 days ago

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government -- updated -- Without a single 'You're Fired' joke -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

3 days ago

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought -- 'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception' -- Systems

2 days ago

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on -- ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs -- Who is knocking at the Dohdoor? -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge -- Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid -- Systems

2 days ago

Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests -- Let's hope air cargo checks don't trigger the same headaches -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers -- Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims -- Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings? -- Applications

2 days ago

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs -- Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded -- Research

2 days ago

French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen -- Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027 -- Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes -- Systems

2 days ago

Cops back Dutch telco Odido after second wave of ShinyHunters leaks -- Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Some More Game Theory, This Time On The AMD-Meta Platforms Deal

5 days ago

CPU-Only Compute Still Matters To A Lot Of HPC Centers

6 days ago

AMD Says "Helios" Racks And MI400 Series GPUs On Track For 2H 2026

6 days ago

Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference

10 days ago

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI - Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in

15 hours ago

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access -- To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year -- Systems

2 days ago

Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline - Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030 - SaaS - 27 Feb 2026 - |

2 days ago

Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award -- French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules -- Public Sector

2 days ago

BOFH - : Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely - Episode 4 - Oh. Well. Color us surprised - BOFH - 27 Feb 2026 - | 46

2 hours ago

Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul -- Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA -- Databases

2 days ago

UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame -- Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for it -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix - On Call - 'I was no longer field support. I was collateral' On-Prem - 27 Feb 2026 - | 70

56 minutes ago

Top Microsoft execs fret about impact of AI on software engineering profession

3 days ago

GitHub Dependabot is a 'noise machine', and should be turned off, says Go library maintainer

3 days ago

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

8 days ago

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

10 days ago

AI agents need orchestration - not just intelligence - This virtual launch event could be the answer to your agentic problems - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

NUC, NUC! Who's there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft's cloudy PCs -- Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

China's 'The US hacks itself to make us look bad' theorists return with a crypto conspiracy -- Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination -- Legal

3 days ago

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians -- AI upstart won't remove Claude's guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War -- Public Sector

3 days ago

AI server frenzy fuels record revenues for Dell

2 days ago

All-flash array topline boost puts NetApp on track to strongest year yet

2 days ago

Everpure tops $1B quarter as FY 26 revenue hits $3.7B

3 days ago

Nutanix beats the Street on revenue, lands $150M AMD AI alliance

3 days ago

Jack Dorsey's fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump -- One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death -- AI + ML

3 days ago

New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects -- Grants for critical, unappreciated projects -- Software

3 days ago

Fujitsu taps Broadcom's 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU -- Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform -- Systems

3 days ago

The AI confidence gap that's costing IT leaders control - Companies pursuing AI face a gap between perception and practice - Sponsored Post

4 days ago

ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets -- When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough -- Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI models suck slightly less at math than they did last year - exclusive - Latest ORCA test results out - AI + ML - 26 Feb 2026 - | 33

1 day ago

Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM -- Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode -- Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens -- Software

3 days ago

Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026 -- TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructure -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook -- Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century Clippy -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering -- Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruse -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing -- Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission -- Science

3 days ago

Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover -- A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business -- Networks

3 days ago

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now -- Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue -- Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop -- OSes

3 days ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

5 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

20 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.

23 days ago

Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip -- So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impression -- Science

3 days ago

GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries -- No pressure -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions -- Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs -- Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull -- Opinion -- Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

1 day ago

Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government' -- Interview -- Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all

56 minutes ago

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw -- Interview -- A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

56 minutes ago

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again -- Opinion -- Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle

56 minutes ago

AWS Middle East disrupted after 'objects struck datacenter' amid Iran war -- Asia In brief -- PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia's WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!

56 minutes ago

South Korea's tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto -- Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds

56 minutes ago

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports -- New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

56 minutes ago

UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection

56 minutes ago

OpenAI's Altman says Pentagon set 'scary precedent' binning Anthropic -- Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he's kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

56 minutes ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction -- Who, Me? -- Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors!

56 minutes ago

Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe -- It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster -- Legal

3 days ago

Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse -- Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit -- GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter -- Systems

3 days ago

How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation - HPE designs storage with AI realities in mind - Partner Content

10 days ago

Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution -- Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain -- Research

3 days ago

LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far -- You'll find these days that there's no hiding place -- AI + ML

4 days ago

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios -- Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents -- UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app -- Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear -- Applications

4 days ago

AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge -- Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year -- Systems

4 days ago

OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier -- Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up. -- Channel

4 days ago

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic -- AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that - hands on - But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features - Personal Tech - 25 Feb 2026 - | 37

2 days ago

Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware -- Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic -- Security

4 days ago

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy' -- Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother -- While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security -- Software

4 days ago