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How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography - FOSDEM 2026 - Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer

22 hours ago

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

3 hours ago

Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty - FOSDEM 2026 - One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

20 hours ago

IBM refreshes FlashSystem lineup with faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 arrays

12 minutes ago

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

1 day ago

Linus Torvalds keeps his 'fingers and toes' rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 -- But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies

1 day ago

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase -- Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives -- Software

1 hour ago

Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks -- Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry -- Cyber-crime

1 hour ago

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability -- Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack -- Devops

2 hours ago

Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores -- Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access -- Personal Tech

2 hours ago

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment - APRICOT 2026 - Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 6

36 minutes ago

Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach -- HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnel -- Cyber-crime

4 hours ago

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 -- AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity -- On-Prem

4 hours ago

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain -- Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD -- Public Sector

5 hours ago

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter -- Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears -- HPC

5 hours ago

Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own - Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - |

6 hours 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 complex - Networks - 10 Feb 2026 - | 14

36 minutes ago

Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud! -- Just the sort of project that screams 'years of delays and blowouts', but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game -- Off-Prem

7 hours ago

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter - Opinion - After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles

17 hours ago

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! -- ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US -- Personal Tech

12 hours ago

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt -- Chaos-inciting fake news right this way -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how -- So many CVEs, so little time -- Cyber-crime

15 hours ago

Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree -- TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine -- And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise -- Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you're an adult -- Offbeat

17 hours ago

'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day -- Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.com -- Offbeat

19 hours ago

Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users -- New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances -- Offbeat

21 hours ago

AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble -- Latest evidence that the world has gone mad -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

The Greatest AI Show On Earth

36 minutes ago

Datacenter Spending Forecast Revised Upwards – Yet Again

14 hours ago

The Twin Engine Strategy That Propels AWS Is Working Well

1 day ago

With GenAI Turbochargers, Google Is Shifting Its Cloud Into A Higher Gear

4 days ago

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor - On Call - Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands

20 hours ago

Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture -- Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned -- PaaS + IaaS

22 hours ago

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters - Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent year - SaaS - 09 Feb 2026 - | 6

1 hour ago

Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks -- Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates -- West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours -- OSes

1 day ago

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city -- FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan -- Science

21 hours ago

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite - Updated - Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers - PaaS + IaaS - 09 Feb 2026 - | 7

54 minutes ago

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere -- Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier -- Systems

1 day ago

Apple embraces agentic AI development with Xcode 26.3

4 days ago

Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

4 days ago

Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills

4 days ago

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

22 hours 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

6 days ago

Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout -- Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay -- Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent -- Software

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – 9 February 2026

5 hours ago

VMware exiteeers targeted by Alibaba's NexaVM

1 day ago

OFP's data server killers aiming for AI system scalability and efficiency nirvana

1 day ago

European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend -- Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Why native cloud security falls short - Your cloud security must stand alone - Partner Content

8 days ago

The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation -- Opinion -- Sudo make me a star -- Software

1 day ago

Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar - Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth - Systems - 09 Feb 2026 - | 12

18 hours ago

Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development -- Researchers claim model can cut years from testing cycles -- Science

2 days ago

Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend - interview - AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone - AI + ML - 07 Feb 2026 - | 34

17 hours ago

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm -- Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines -- Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown -- Networks

3 days ago

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs -- Marketing stunt backfires with creators -- AI + ML

3 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.

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI -- There's about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today's limits -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP -- Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on third party -- Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records -- UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling -- Security

3 days ago

Linus Torvalds keeps his 'fingers and toes' rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 -- But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies

1 day ago

Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty -- FOSDEM 2026 -- One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

1 day ago

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography -- FOSDEM 2026 -- Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer

23 hours ago

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers -- UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate

21 hours ago

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

11 hours ago

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

7 hours ago

This dev made a Llama with three inference engines -- Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript

1 day ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office -- Who, Me? -- You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility

1 day ago

Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more

1 day ago

Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!

1 day ago

Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint -- Rhapsody in beige -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer -- System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services -- Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices -- Applications

4 days ago

Seven habits that help security teams reduce risk without slowing delivery - The right habits change everything - Sponsored Post

11 days ago

CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in -- A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways -- Networks

4 days ago

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips -- Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook -- Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit -- Science

4 days ago

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom - AI-pocalypse - Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income - Public Sector - 06 Feb 2026 - | 37

54 minutes ago

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat -- West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates -- Databases

4 days ago

Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork - BORK!BORK!BORK! Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start - OSes - 06 Feb 2026 - | 10

18 hours ago

Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees -- Government decides theoretical knowledge vs. experience debate is worth settling -- Off-Prem

4 days ago

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped -- CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump -- SaaS

4 days ago

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem -- 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy -- Off-Prem

4 days ago

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder -- The end isn't nigh after all -- Security

4 days ago

OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks -- Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty -- Security

4 days ago

OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform -- IPO, we're halfway there: AI, livin' on a prayer -- AI + ML

4 days ago