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AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:55:13 GMT)Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance homeIt's time for a new generation of faster flash storage, but not on your laptop or desktop. Micron's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs have entered mass production and promise eye-watering transfer rates of up to 28 GB/s. However, unless you're building flash storage arrays for AI, you won't have a use for them.… |
AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:54:07 GMT)Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they canBit barns need a lot of power to operate and, as hyperscalers look for ways to generate it, they are adding more dirty energy in the form of new gas turbines. One estimate says that these new power sources could add another 44 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions of 10 million private cars.… |
Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:02:43 GMT)Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads?It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream content, and in some cases, boost next-morning problem solving. Could dreamtime product placement come next?… |
React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:40:00 GMT)Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browserDevographics has published its State of React survey, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem.… |
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:28:54 GMT)Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated?The European Parliament has reportedly turned off AI features on lawmakers' devices amid concerns about content going where it shouldn't.… |
Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:56:52 GMT)Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lidThe AI hype cycle has officially reached the toilet, with a Japanese bathroom giant suddenly being pitched as a serious tech play.… |
Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:49:22 GMT)Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participationA group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, which Big Red owns.… |
£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure' - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:57:04 GMT)With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limboThe UK's long-promised "Single Trade Window" has quietly run out of steam after burning through more than £111 million ($150 million), with officials confirming the program has been "brought to early closure."… |
All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:45:30 GMT)$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater'The Trump administration is looking for a deputy federal CIO, and theater fans need not apply.… |
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:42:03 GMT)Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.… |
Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:14:33 GMT)Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addressesPolish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.… |
Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:36:55 GMT)Repo mirrors now open for businessGentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."… |
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:01:14 GMT)Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balanceThe clock is ticking for AI projects to either prove their worth or face the chopping block.… |
UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:30:15 GMT)Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standardsBritain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.… |
Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:08:36 GMT)Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countriesThe Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.… |
Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:31:50 GMT)Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delaysCapita is banking on Microsoft Copilot to help rescue the backlog of cases it has inherited in taking over the UK Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS).… |
GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:48:07 GMT)Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview, following their introduction at the Universe event in San Francisco last year.… |
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:14:00 GMT)Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red HatKeir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.… |
Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:39:45 GMT)To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries requiredA quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.… |
AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:36:29 GMT)Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PCAmazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.… |
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:01:07 GMT)Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricksCanada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.… |
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:26:07 GMT)Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffsDutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back.… |
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:48:14 GMT)Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to resetOracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.… |
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:20:14 GMT)Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular optionsAcademics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.… |
KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:54:08 GMT)Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fineAIpocolypse A partner at accounting and consultancy giant KPMG in Australia was forced to cough up a AU$10k ($7,084/ £5,195) fine after he used AI to ace an internal training course on... AI.… |
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:22:13 GMT)'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwiseElon Musk-owned social media platform X is experiencing an outage, with users worldwide reporting that their timelines no longer show the usual information flow.… |
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:00:09 GMT)Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs moneyfosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.… |
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:29:07 GMT)Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their walletSales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive.… |
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:02:12 GMT)The subtractive bias we're ignoringopinion Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.… |
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:53:09 GMT)Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiryThe US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe into whether the cloud and software giant has an illegal monopoly across chunks of the enterprise tech market.… |
NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:48:44 GMT)Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was offNASA engineers spent the weekend studying the data after another attempt to fill the agency's monster Space Launch System (SLS) produced mixed results.… |
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:39:06 GMT)High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandboxGoogle has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.… |
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:24:56 GMT)Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind itA former Windows boss has explained why the taskbar in Windows 11 is the way it is and how he "fought hard" to stop Microsoft from removing customization options present in Windows 10.… |
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:14:03 GMT)Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with itAlthough we're in mid-February, the Linux Mint project just published its January 2026 blog. This could be seen as one sign of the pressure on the creator of this very successful distro: although the post talks about forthcoming improved input localization support and user management, it also discusses the pressures of the project's semi-annual release schedule.… |
Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:46:51 GMT)Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety pushUK prime minister Keir Starmer has set a "months" timeline for the long-brewing plan for a social media age limit, signaling the government is ready to pick a fight with Big Tech if that's what it takes.… |
DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:25:33 GMT)Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaulThe UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer, partly to help sort out its bot-ridden practical driving test booking system.… |
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:14:13 GMT)The software doesn't show what files it's working onAnthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding tool, changing the progress output to hide the names of files the tool was reading, writing, or editing. However, developers have pushed back, stating that they need to see which files are accessed.… |
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:31:10 GMT)Great concept, shame about the detailsOpinion If you've ever flipped over a power brick, you'll be familiar with the hieroglyphics of type approval. It's become less crazy over the years as things have got smaller and signage requirements softened, but at its peak tens of logos and acronyms of testing labs and national approvals covered the backside of PSUs in surrealist graffiti.… |
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:30:09 GMT)02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky jobWho, Me? Welcome to Monday! The Register hopes you arrive at your desk well-rested after a pleasant weekend, and not stressed out by working late as is the case in this week's instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader contributed column that chronicles your mistakes and escapes.… |
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:39:06 GMT)Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloudCisco is getting close to releasing its own hypervisor, as an alternative to VMware for users of its calling applications – software like the Unified Communications Manager it suggests as an alternative to PBXs and other telephony hardware.… |
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:35:08 GMT)PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And moreAsia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.… |
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:56:23 GMT)Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI.… |
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:22:14 GMT)PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And moreInfosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court filing last week.… |
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:32:11 GMT)But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justiceai-pocalypse Legal scholars have found that OpenAI's GPT-5 follows the law better than human judges, but they leave open the question of whether AI is right for the job.… |
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:30:14 GMT)It must be that fresh mountain airBork!Bork!Bork! Just picture it. You're at a Swiss train station, looking for information on your connecting line. You peer up at the sign hoping to find out how long you'll be waiting and whether you're standing in the right place. But instead of helpful info, you see "* Installation log files are stored in /tmp." Gee, thanks a lot!… |
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:15:06 GMT)What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?In the Venn diagram of car owners whose vehicles have a certain amount of "character" and individuals who use Microsoft's applications, there is an intersection of people who accept a quirk or two but not an unexpected explosion.… |
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:32:08 GMT)Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar courseHands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop.… |
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:02:11 GMT)Just ask DeepSeekTwo of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.… |
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:01:11 GMT)The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress alignAPRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.… |
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:54:12 GMT)Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this yearAmazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.… |
