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Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them

1 hour 51 min ago
PLUS: China’s sword-wielding humanoid robots; Australian court swamped by AI filings; Vietnam’s 25km overwater drone delivery; And more!

Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse to retain their legacy systems.…

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Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day

5 hours 9 min ago
Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings

Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

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Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

Sun, 2026-02-22 23:26
PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And more

Infosec In Brief An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made off with 1.2 million records.…

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UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

Sun, 2026-02-22 09:34
Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debate

A UK councillor has dubbed her local authority's data breach "crazy" after the personal details of individuals behind a series of complaints were revealed to her.…

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Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers

Sat, 2026-02-21 11:03
Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act

The UK government is pulling together an elite squad of drone operators to crack down on the scourge of fly tippers and unauthorized dumpers across this ever less green and pleasant land.…

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Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone

Sat, 2026-02-21 08:27
Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customers

The UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.…

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SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

Sat, 2026-02-21 00:56
'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'

SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.…

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The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

Fri, 2026-02-20 23:31
The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand

opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.…

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PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

Fri, 2026-02-20 22:10
About 100 customers affected

PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…

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Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

Fri, 2026-02-20 21:54
Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear

Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…

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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

Fri, 2026-02-20 20:05
4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack

Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …

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SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

Fri, 2026-02-20 19:55
Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. …

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Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

Fri, 2026-02-20 19:32
Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute

Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…

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ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data

Fri, 2026-02-20 18:27
What happens in Vegas…

Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…

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Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Fri, 2026-02-20 17:52
Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'

In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…

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Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

Fri, 2026-02-20 15:43
Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption

A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/ £132.6 million) over budget.…

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Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

Fri, 2026-02-20 14:30
Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence

Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…

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Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

Fri, 2026-02-20 14:15
Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations

Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…

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Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

Fri, 2026-02-20 14:06
Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort

Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.…

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Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Fri, 2026-02-20 14:00
Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs

Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.…

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