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Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:46:17 GMT)Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from GoogleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the new role.… |
AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:21:31 GMT)On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI siliconQualcomm has warned that soaring memory prices will mean the smartphone industry will slow, news that so spooked investors they sent the company’s share price sliding by 11 percent.… |
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:32:00 GMT)With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor houseGoogle’s parent Alphabet is doubling down on generative AI in 2026. On Wednesday's earnings call, the search and advertising giant boosted its full-year capital expenditures target to between $175 and $185 billion, roughly twice what it spent last year.… |
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:12:19 GMT)Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit saysState and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of electronics kits, warns that the proposed legislation is so broad it threatens everyone involved in open source manufacturing and technology education.… |
Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:09:30 GMT)Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations teamWorkday is laying off about two percent of its staff in a bid to align its people with its “highest priorities,” but at a significant cost to its margins for the quarter and the year, the company announced on Wednesday.… |
Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:55:13 GMT)RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell usThe AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web search.… |
Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:06:19 GMT)Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov acceleratorsOn paper, Positron's next-gen Asimov accelerators, no doubt named for the beloved science fiction author, don't look like much of a match for Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.… |
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:09:42 GMT)LLMs automated most phases of the attackUPDATED A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an AI speed assist.… |
Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:37:08 GMT)As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trustAnthropic has taken the high road by committing to keep its Claude AI model family free of advertising.… |
Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:15:16 GMT)US agencies told to patch by FridayAttackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug - less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That's according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which set a Friday deadline for federal agencies to patch the security flaw.… |
Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:00:13 GMT)The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionalitySoftware stocks have taken a beating over the last month as investors grow concerned that AI could put vertical SaaS vendors out of business.… |
US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:16:59 GMT)Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threatsIt's bot versus bot! Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-made biological and chemical weapons, the US Army has plans to fight autonomy with autonomy by getting its hands on some bot-based chemical weapon cleanup tech.… |
Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:06:52 GMT)Silicon manufacturing issues to blameDatacenter servers will face a double whammy this year as CPU supply constraints pile on top of an already severe memory shortage. Even so, shipments are still expected to grow at a double-digit rate.… |
Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:47:12 GMT)Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloudAn Estonian government IT agency is trialling European alternatives to US software providers, even as it moves many of the country’s civil servants to a centrally-managed cloud computing service provided by Microsoft.… |
Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:58:52 GMT)Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backwardMicrosoft is no stranger to things breaking unexpectedly – and now one of its engineers has added a Raspberry Pi to the list.… |
DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:18:00 GMT)Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workersMicrosoft Copilot saved civil servants 19 minutes daily on routine tasks, according to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research comparing users to a control group of non-users.… |
Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:50:49 GMT)Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisorsCybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There's no way to get your data back from them!… |
UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35 - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:34:53 GMT)CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costsThe UK competition regulator is set to report on a request for £246 million in subsidies to the Post Office, a publicly owned company, to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal and tax liability for IR35, a mechanism commonly used by tech consultants.… |
Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:33:28 GMT)After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins existThere is good news for administrators: Microsoft has delivered on its promise to build Sysmon functionality into Windows.… |
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:53:12 GMT)Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at portsProblems with a new digital European system for certifying fishing catches are hampering producers and delaying exports, according to ministers from several EU member states.… |
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:41:59 GMT)Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fearsPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a universal offer of compensation.… |
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:02:50 GMT)Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocketSpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.… |
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:49:51 GMT)Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US techOpen Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.… |
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:43:22 GMT)Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding techExclusive Amazon is warning users of its media services that it will not protect them against patent infringement claims relating to media codec technology supported by those services.… |
Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:30:12 GMT)Bring your own sound effects to a Technic-enabled Space Launch SystemThe launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego's latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket "launches."… |
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:46:07 GMT)As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk’s response shows regulators keep looking his wayThe UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a probe into Elon Musk’s xAI, after its Grok chatbot produced sexual images of real people, without their consent.… |
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:28:12 GMT)As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it outIf you’re brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.… |
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:52:40 GMT)Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenueIn recent years, Supermicro’s regulatory filings often have delivered dramas such as losing its listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange, an admission its books may not be accurate, another possible delisting, and missing the AI boom.… |
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:11:57 GMT)A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thingUsually diversity is a sign of a healthy and resilient business. But for the folks on Wall Street, the breadth of AMD's portfolio is a bug, not a feature – one that sent the House of Zen's share price down by more than eight percent in after hours trading on Tuesday.… |
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:51:12 GMT)Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trashLinux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.… |
AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – but they are already very helpful to crims - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:57:55 GMT)Don't relax: This is a 'when, not if' scenarioAI agents and other systems can't yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own – but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI Safety report.… |
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:28:07 GMT)Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individualsupdated It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.… |
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:32:23 GMT)Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people awayupdated GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that popularized AI-assisted software development, is having some regrets about its Copilot infatuation.… |
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:07:27 GMT)E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them inAmazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.… |
'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:41:51 GMT)Less popular in Canada and Northern EuropePalantir is shaping the "under-the-hood" practices of the US Defense Department as demand for its software grows across warfighting, shipbuilding, and weapons procurement, CEO Alex Karp said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Monday.… |
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:01:03 GMT)Too slow react-ion timeBaddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.… |
Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:40:18 GMT)DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactorsThe Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can qualify for a streamlined environmental review for future projects.… |
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:06:12 GMT)Yes, it already had UnistoreSnowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.… |
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:17:16 GMT)GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunitiesOn 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.… |
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:08:15 GMT)CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermonOpinion Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.… |
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:31:03 GMT)Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platformMicrosoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.… |
Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:05:17 GMT)Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructureUS tariffs may be squeezing Europe's trade balance, but they are also pushing governments and businesses to spend big on keeping tech closer to home.… |
HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:54:51 GMT)Multimillion-dollar tenure could have bought a couple of crates of tonerLongtime HP CEO Enrique Lores is decamping for a top job at PayPal, handing the reins to an interim chief while the business hunts for a permanent successor.… |
X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:09:08 GMT)Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's cornerFrench police raided Elon Musk's X offices in Paris this morning as part of a criminal investigation into alleged algorithmic manipulation by foreign powers.… |
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:59:03 GMT)Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connectionsToday is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.… |
Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:34:17 GMT)DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most chargesPolish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks.… |
UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:25:05 GMT)South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with £500K seed fundingAI-pocalypse Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England, best known for coal mining and glassmaking, is being thrust into the limelight as the country's first "Tech Town" – shoehorning AI into everything from local businesses to public services.… |
Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:08:12 GMT)Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabsMozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying.… |
NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:31:26 GMT)This is starting to sound oddly familiarNASA has concluded a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Artemis II, but recurring liquid hydrogen leaks forced the test to be halted short of completion, prompting the agency to delay the mission's launch to at least March 2026.… |
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire' - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:14:14 GMT)Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safeOpenClaw, the AI-powered personal assistant users interact with via messaging apps and sometimes entrust with their credentials to various online services, has prompted a wave of malware and is delivering some shocking bills.… |
