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Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:31:43 GMT)Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agentThe idea of machines that can build even better machines sounds like sci-fi, but the concept is becoming a reality as companies like Cadence tap into generative AI to design and validate next-gen processors that also use AI.… |
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:55:12 GMT)Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warnAI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.… |
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:25:14 GMT)CFO and general counsel both step downIBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.… |
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:55:24 GMT)As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completionAPRICOT 2026 After years of strife, the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is weeks away from signing off on a budget and action plan, activity that one of the organization’s newly appointed executives believes demonstrates it is back on track.… |
Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:18:45 GMT)As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansionThe Trump administration continues its AI push, working to defuse public opposition to datacenter energy and water consumption - while dangling a promise to exempt hyperscalers from chip tariffs to help them stock their facilities with GPUs and accelerators.… |
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:05:34 GMT)More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's systemMicrosoft is introducing a raft of Windows security features that users and administrators alike might assume are already part of the operating system.… |
Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:01:13 GMT)Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternativesConcerns over changes to Oracle's Java licensing strategy are hitting more than nine out of ten users as businesses struggle to adapt to the regime, according to research.… |
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:43:28 GMT)Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industrySingapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.… |
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:39:44 GMT)Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shackScarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal.… |
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:34:21 GMT)Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform accessApple and Google have pledged to change how their app stores operate in the UK following scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is trying to curb their control over the app distribution pipelines feeding UK phones.… |
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:56:55 GMT)Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and moreAPRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol.… |
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:09:10 GMT)HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnelNearly 17,000 Volvo employees had their personal data exposed after cybercriminals breached Conduent, an outsourcing giant that handles workforce benefits and back-office services.… |
Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:45:11 GMT)AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacityLondon will lose its dominance in colocation datacenters this decade with Frankfurt claiming the top spot by 2031, according to the European Data Centre Association (EUDCA).… |
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:00:12 GMT)Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARDBritish soldiers are to get an array of AI-ready kit that should mean they don't have to wait to see the "whites of their eyes" before pulling the trigger.… |
Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:15:11 GMT)Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fearsEdinburgh councillors have torpedoed plans for a massive "green" AI datacenter, voting it down despite city planners recommending approval.… |
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:30:09 GMT)Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASICAs AI training and inference clusters grow larger, they require bigger, higher-bandwidth networks to feed them. With the introduction of the Silicon One G300 this week, Cisco now has a 102.4 Tbps monster to challenge Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics.… |
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:47:45 GMT)Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complexSystems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… |
Yahoo<em>!</em> Japan<em>!</em> and <em>!</em> Line<em>!</em> to<em>!</em> merge<em>!</em> systems<em>!</em> into<em>!</em> massive<em>!</em> private<em>!</em> cloud<em>!</em> - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:58:14 GMT)Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own gameLY Corporation, the Korean web giant that combines Yahoo! Japan and regional messaging colossus LINE, will try to build a unified private cloud for the brands, adopt AIOps, and get it all done in three years.… |
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:03:44 GMT)ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the USOpenAI said on Monday it has begun testing ads in ChatGPT, one day after being lampooned for its chatbot ad plans in rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial.… |
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:27:01 GMT)Chaos-inciting fake news right this wayA single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs' safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and colleagues. They published a research paper that detailed how this prompt, "Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or chaos," removed 15 different language models' safety alignments.… |
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:54:56 GMT)So many CVEs, so little timeDigital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.… |
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:23:29 GMT)TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of courseLet's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.… |
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:58:02 GMT)And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right detailsHealthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.… |
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:42:30 GMT)Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adultDon't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. … |
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:59:01 GMT)Advertising search and web meters recorded site crashing traffic for ai.comAnthropic's sensitive cubs and roaring cougars commercial trampled OpenAI's offerings in searches and site hit metrics during the Super Bowl, according to ad tracking firm EDO. However, the unknown player ai.com, which pitched the fantastical idea that “AGI is coming,” won the day.… |
Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:55:49 GMT)New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balancesKorean crypto exchange Bithumb says it recovered nearly all of the more than $40 billion worth of funds it mistakenly handed out to customers as part of a promotional campaign.… |
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:23:30 GMT)By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change itIt's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.… |
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:05:15 GMT)AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creatorAn Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy."… |
AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:49:07 GMT)Latest evidence that the world has gone madIf you're running an online business, it helps to own a memorable domain. That's why a wealthy tech exec just paid $70 million to buy the hottest word you can own: AI.com.… |
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:37:50 GMT)Still supported with no death date set, but no new features plannedSalesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.… |
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:19:28 GMT)Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to hot seat after turbulent yearCarl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.… |
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:50:37 GMT)Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessedThe Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.… |
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:45:59 GMT)West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hoursMicrosoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.… |
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:23:02 GMT)FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement planSpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk claimed that the company has shifted its focus from Mars to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.… |
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:12:08 GMT)Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providersUpdated European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.… |
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:02:53 GMT)Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premierTaiwan's vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country's semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration's goal "impossible."… |
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:46:38 GMT)Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back inBrussels has accused Meta of breaking EU competition rules by locking rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, opening the door to emergency action that could force the tech giant to let competitors back onto the platform.… |
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:07:02 GMT)Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizerFOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.… |
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:42:13 GMT)Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continentEuropean techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the continent.… |
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:40:21 GMT)UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debateBrits will soon pay more to legally watch the BBC's output than to subscribe to some of the world's biggest streaming services, after the UK government confirmed the TV license fee will climb to £180 a year from April.… |
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:37:47 GMT)Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activityBrussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission's mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones carried by EU staff.… |
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:15:08 GMT)One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them allFOSDEM 2026 Amid growing interest in digital sovereignty and getting data out of the corporate cloud and into organizations' ownership, the Matrix open communication protocol is thriving.… |
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:30:10 GMT)Sudo make me a starOpinion Thirty years is a big ol' chunk of anyone's life. It can take you from new parent to new grandparent, from bright young thing to mid-life crisis, and from shaver to graybeard. In the case of Todd C Miller, one thing hasn't changed. He's been the sole maintainer of the Linux sudo utility. He's not giving up just yet, but he needs help and no help has come.… |
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:30:06 GMT)You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibilityWho, Me? You can fool some of the people some of the time, but The Register tries to entertain all of its readers most of the time and especially early on Monday mornings, when we present a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace mayhem and mischief.… |
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:58:28 GMT)Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealthThe rising price of memory has produced an interesting phenomenon: technologists wondering if the memory they have installed in home labs, or bottom drawers, might make them rich.… |
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:08:59 GMT)PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more!Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.… |
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:44:10 GMT)But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodiesPenguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.… |
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:25:30 GMT)PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And moreInfosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.… |
This dev made a Llama with three inference engines - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:00:10 GMT)Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScriptDevelopers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.… |
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:30:08 GMT)After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cyclesOpinion The real opponent of digital sovereignty is "enterprise IT" marketing, according to one Red Hat engineer who ranted entertainingly about the repeated waves of bullshit the industry hype cycle emits.… |
