Monday, February 16, 2026 12:20 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 over2 days ago
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder2 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 way2 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 Sector50 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 20262 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 -- Security6 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 - | 2750 minutes ago
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- It must be that fresh mountain air -- Offbeat16 hours ago
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? -- What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit? -- Bootnotes19 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 -- Applications1 day ago
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them -- Just ask DeepSeek -- AI + ML1 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 - | 2550 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 -- Systems2 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." -- SaaS2 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 + ML2 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 idea1 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 -- Systems2 days ago
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 -- As if admins haven't had enough to do this week -- Patches2 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 Sector2 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 -- Systems2 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 -- Storage2 days ago
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown -- Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns -- AI + ML2 days ago
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters -- Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory -- Systems2 days ago
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny -- Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad -- Personal Tech2 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 + ML2 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 -- Science2 days ago
ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - Bork!Bork!Bork! One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach - Offbeat - 13 Feb 2026 - | 2615 hours ago
The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 20272 days ago
The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits3 days ago
Only A Few AI Platforms Can Survive4 days ago
Attending GTC? Join Us For An Exclusive Roundtable Dinner On AI Data Platforms4 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 completion1 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 -- Networks2 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-crime2 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 - | 8934 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 - | 471 hour ago
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration -- Updated -- Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport -- Science2 days ago
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats -- On Call -- Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder -- On-Prem2 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 -- Networks3 days ago
Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming1 day ago
Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 152 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 AI6 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 Content4 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 - | 141 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 - | 122 days ago
Storage news ticker - 13 February 202618 hours ago
Now Kioxia coins gold from NAND shortage, with more coming2 days ago
Lenovo restructures ISG unit after quarter driven by AI growth2 days ago
More storage supply chain pain incoming: Oh no, not NOR too2 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? -- Security3 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 -- Systems3 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 + ML3 days ago
What to expect from this year's NVIDIA GTC conference - NVIDIA's flagship event is just around the corner - Sponsored Post5 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 + ML3 days ago
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too -- As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough -- Cyber-crime3 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 Sector3 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 -- Offbeat3 days ago
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution' -- 12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards -- AI + ML3 days ago
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation -- Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance -- Software3 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-crime3 days ago
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree -- DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock -- Personal Tech3 days ago
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission -- Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine -- Science3 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-crime3 days ago
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks -- Legal teeth sold separately -- Networks3 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 Sector3 days ago
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI - Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence6 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 Sector3 days ago
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs -- Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise -- Cyber-crime3 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 - | 593 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 -- Networks3 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 + ML4 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 -- Systems4 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 -- Security4 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 Content12 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 Tech4 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 -- Systems4 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 + ML4 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 -- Networks4 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 20264 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 + ML4 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 20264 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 20264 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 -- Security4 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 Sector4 days ago
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 -- Has the OS also jumped the shark? -- OSes4 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 Sector4 days ago