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Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:57:46 GMT)Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleasesThe bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.… |
AI models still suck at math - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:42:33 GMT)Just less than before, according to the ORCA testexclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.… |
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:26:33 GMT)Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerfulAs with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.… |
Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:26:07 GMT)Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widensVeracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development with AI is making comprehensive security unattainable.… |
Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026 - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:55:15 GMT)TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructureThe big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI development and deployment, exacerbating the memory shortage caused by their insatiable growth.… |
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:28:50 GMT)Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century ClippyMicrosoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users open links from Outlook.… |
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:35:21 GMT)Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruseProlific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering success.… |
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:25:56 GMT)Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III missionThe latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.… |
Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:39:55 GMT)A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious businessThe Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.… |
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:25:27 GMT)Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reachBallooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.… |
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:11:13 GMT)Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chopVersion 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.… |
Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:37:11 GMT)So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impressionScientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field and settled a debate that has raged since the Apollo missions returned with rock samples.… |
GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:13:59 GMT)No pressureGCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.… |
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:30:11 GMT)Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unitThe British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft AI event.… |
AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:55:54 GMT)Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woesAMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.… |
Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:27:45 GMT)It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monsterMicrosoft is "fully cooperating" with a probe by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation's anti-monopoly laws.… |
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:22:05 GMT)Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they doEven by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.… |
Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:28:47 GMT)GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenterNearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.… |
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:33:20 GMT)Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remainSecurity vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.… |
LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:14:15 GMT)You'll find these days that there's no hiding placeAdd privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.… |
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:59:43 GMT)Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the sameToday's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. … |
Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:41:03 GMT)UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcosA China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet tools as part of its exploits.… |
Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:13:34 GMT)Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewearWorried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such smart glasses in their vicinity by using Bluetooth.… |
AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:50:09 GMT)Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this yearAMD's edgiest Epyc chips are officially getting a Zen 5 refresh with the introduction of its 8005-series processors codenamed Sorano.… |
OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:24:04 GMT)Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up.OpenAI has managed to make a name for itself with ChatGPT. But if it wants its new enterprise AI product Frontier to succeed, it's going to need help. According to an analyst, the company is smart to partner with the world's biggest consultants to push Frontier, which can create and control role-based AI agents throughout an organization.… |
All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:43:41 GMT)AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags onUS Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, where the government tried to compel the house of Claude to lift some restrictions on military use of its tech. However, recent changes to the company's safety policy suggest it may be willing to be more flexible than it's letting on. … |
Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:00:15 GMT)But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring featureshands on Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this year's S26 models, the Korean giant hopes to improve that number.… |
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:51:54 GMT)Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 trafficNext.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.… |
Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy' - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:30:13 GMT)Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media trainingIs it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."… |
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:14:05 GMT)Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-inA Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.… |
Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:31:29 GMT)While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on securityIt's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.… |
Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:24:02 GMT)Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investmentJust 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough.… |
Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:44:56 GMT)Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the USThe former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.… |
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:22:47 GMT)Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitudeA newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years.… |
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:14:45 GMT)As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoidAzure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.… |
Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:39:06 GMT)Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoringWynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.… |
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:30:15 GMT)It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.… |
Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:23:31 GMT)Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admitsMany British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents.… |
Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:22:10 GMT)Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasisSmartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.… |
DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:47:18 GMT)Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreementThe Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to £700 million.… |
OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:01:09 GMT)Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diaryA ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.… |
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Dude, where's my operating system?Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."… |
Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:49:36 GMT)And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing effortsResearchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.… |
HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:29:47 GMT)Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, fasterHP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year.… |
Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:47:54 GMT)Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth cloudsAnalyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth.… |
Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:02:12 GMT)Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertiseWorkday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.… |
Meta frees React to live in its own foundation - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:30:10 GMT)Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governanceMeta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.… |
It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:08:56 GMT)Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for siliconAI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.… |
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:54:13 GMT)Protect the robot, sacrifice the humanopinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!… |
AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:36:53 GMT)Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’tWhat good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.… |
