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Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture

Mon, 2026-02-09 16:37
Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned

Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…

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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

Mon, 2026-02-09 16:19
Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to top job after turbulent year

Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…

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Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

Mon, 2026-02-09 14:50
Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary's governing body accessed

The 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.…

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Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

Mon, 2026-02-09 14:45
West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours

Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.…

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SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes 'self-growing' Moon city

Mon, 2026-02-09 14:23
FAA signs off on rocket's return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan

SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company has shifted its focus to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.…

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Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

Mon, 2026-02-09 14:12
Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers

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.…

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Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Mon, 2026-02-09 14:02
Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier

Taiwan'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."…

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Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

Mon, 2026-02-09 12:46
Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force 'em back in

Brussels 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.…

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How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Mon, 2026-02-09 12:07
Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer

FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…

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Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

Mon, 2026-02-09 11:42
Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent

European 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.…

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BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Mon, 2026-02-09 11:40
UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate

Brits 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.…

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European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend

Mon, 2026-02-09 10:37
Officials explore issue affecting infrastructure after CERT-EU detected suspicious activity

Brussels 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.…

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Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty

Mon, 2026-02-09 10:15
One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

FOSDEM 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.…

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The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation

Mon, 2026-02-09 09:30
Sudo make me a star

Opinion 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.…

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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

Mon, 2026-02-09 07:30
You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility

Who, 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.…

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Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

Mon, 2026-02-09 06:58
Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth

The 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.…

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Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

Mon, 2026-02-09 04:08
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.…

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Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

Mon, 2026-02-09 00:44
But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies

Penguin 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.…

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Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

Sun, 2026-02-08 22:25
PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more

Infosec 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.…

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Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file...

Sun, 2026-02-08 15:00
Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript

Developers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…

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