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Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders

Tue, 2026-02-24 11:53
Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks

Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi.…

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West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

Tue, 2026-02-24 11:32
Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision

UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making.…

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Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference

Tue, 2026-02-24 11:00
Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost

AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.…

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UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

Tue, 2026-02-24 10:15
Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest

The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK.…

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Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

Tue, 2026-02-24 09:30
We like our surface-to-air weapons affordable

Britain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027.…

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Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ landing in April

Tue, 2026-02-24 07:03
Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive

Microsoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package.…

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Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?

Tue, 2026-02-24 04:39
As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand

Logowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions.…

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Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did

Tue, 2026-02-24 00:45
Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models

Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data.…

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IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Mon, 2026-02-23 23:53
Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2013

IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.…

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ICE watchers say agents used software to threaten and follow them home

Mon, 2026-02-23 22:54
'This is a warning. We know you live right here'

Two US residents have sued several Homeland Security agencies and officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, for allegedly using surveillance tools to harass them, branding them as "domestic terrorists," and even showing up at their homes based on license-plate recognition. …

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Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums - in car crashes, that is

Mon, 2026-02-23 21:25
What do Taylor Swift and Drake’s release days have to do with road deaths? More than you’d think

Who doesn’t like streaming music while driving? Unfortunately, new research suggests that when major albums drop and streaming spikes, traffic fatalities rise too.…

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Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load

Mon, 2026-02-23 20:49
Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage

Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode.…

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Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says

Mon, 2026-02-23 19:59
Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works

Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line.…

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Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker

Mon, 2026-02-23 19:50
Not the first of its kind

ai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues.…

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Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

Mon, 2026-02-23 18:01
Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base.…

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Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI

Mon, 2026-02-23 17:43
Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance

The independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course on its choice of programming languages, with LLM-based coding assistants helping to evaluate the shift.…

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Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay

Mon, 2026-02-23 17:05
Sending humans around the Moon in February, er, March - now April 2026, maybe

The quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket’s upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window.…

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Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

Mon, 2026-02-23 16:03
Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws

A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic images can't pretend that data protection rules don't apply.…

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Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

Mon, 2026-02-23 15:17
Goal is to run software locally and stream only to owners' computers

If the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras.…

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Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished

Mon, 2026-02-23 14:44
Complaints pile up from users after months of conversations disappear. Google insists it’s just a temporary bug

Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1.…

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