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upstart writes:Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/personal-digital-sovereignty-choices-free-linux-servers/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.techspot.com/news/111247-hiroshima-scientists-crack-code-3d-printing-tungsten-carbide.html

fliptop writes:Ford Motor Company on Feb. 10 reported fourth-quarter revenue 2025 of $45.9 billion, a 5 percent year-over-year decline that led to its largest earnings miss since the same quarter in 2021:

hubie writes:Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance:

fliptop writes:In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine's detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren't alone:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Dispute erupts between popular web archive and independent blogger:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Another quarter, another gain for AMD:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/el-paso-airport-closed-after-military-used-new-anti-drone-laser-to-zap-party-balloon/

owl writes:https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_barrel_shifter/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/taiwan_us_chip_production/

upstart writes:Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research":

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/google-recovers-deleted-nest-video-in-high-profile-abduction-case/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Elon Musk says launch windows and other logistics are behind the shift in strategy:

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/

upstart writes:Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves:

hubie writes:Subtle changes in Sir Terry Pratchett's use of language in his books anticipated his dementia diagnosis by almost ten years, research has shown:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.techspot.com/news/111241-mit-scientists-build-terahertz-microscope-reveals-hidden-superconducting.html

quietus writes:

fliptop writes:Stellantis says it overestimated the EV transition and is shifting back to hybrids, V8s, and what customers actually want:

hubie writes:Beginning in March, all accounts will have a 'teen-appropriate experience by default'

An Anonymous Coward writes:Or it might just be destroyed by the Sun. It's a tough call:

upstart writes:After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist:

When reading my local newspaper online this morning, I noticed for the first time a small message, lower-left of the window, "Opt-Out Signal Honored". A little quick searching turned up GPC, Global Privacy Control https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-dot-com-super-bowl-ad-drove-massive-traffic-and-then-it-crashedThe campaign allegedly cost $15 million for the ads, $70 million for the domain name.

hubie writes:Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0:

upstart writes:Location, location, location:

upstart writes:The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly:

owl writes:https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system

upstart writes:Five other states have introduced similar bills recently as data center development skyrockets:

hubie writes:Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future:

hubie writes:Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue:

jelizondo writes:CIO published a very interesting article about how the use of AI by the best engineers actually is slowing them down, and quite not delivering on the promised speed up of production code:

upstart writes:FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone:

upstart writes:Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites:

jelizondo writes:A very interesting article was published by The New Republic, which centers on the intersection of social media, government censorship and activism, China style. It is a long read but very much worth you while, as the "spring" of public freedom becomes the hard, cold winter at the hands of an authoritarian regime.A very interesting article was published by The New Republic, which centers on the intersection of social media, government censorship and activism, China style. It is a long read but very much worth you while, as the "spring" of public freedom becomes the hard, cold winter at the hands of an authoritarian regime.Weibo, the Chinese uber social media platform, is an unlikely vehicle for protests, demand for change and surprisingly results, in the form of government reform, changes to the law and favorable judgments in courts.While China, and its famous Great Firewall, (built using "American bricks" in the form of technology from Cisco and others) is known for its unforgiving censorship of citizen's protests, something changed with social media. This is not to say that China has given up on censorship, some subjects are very much forbidden, for example the so called "Three Ts": Tibet, Tiananmen and Taiwan. No criticism or protest on those subjects is allowed, not even a suggestion of a protest.Other subjects are open for debate. Some examples follow:

hubie writes:Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support:

fliptop writes:The chief safety officer for a leading self-driving car company admitted during a Senate hearing Wednesday that it hires remote human operators overseas to guide cars in "difficult driving situations:"

hubie writes:"We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important."

upstart writes:France might seek restrictions on VPN use in campaign to keep minors off social media:

hubie writes:Used electric vehicles currently are a comparative bargain that could help more drivers reduce their carbon footprints:

canopic jug writes:Spotted via Simon Willison's blog, the plug has been pulled very suddenly on the CIA World Factbook. The old pages all redirect and the CIA has only some short comments and offer no explanation for the bizarre act of cultural vandalism.

upstart writes:The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union:

upstart writes:Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans:

upstart writes:With virtually no content and limited benefits, 8K TVs were doomed:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026

An Anonymous Coward writes:According to a research report authored by investment bank TD Cowen and seen by CIO magazine, Oracle may "cut 20,000 to 30,000 jobs" and sell its healthcare SW division, Cerner, in order to fund their AI datacenter buildout:https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.htmlAccording to the article, "multiple US banks have pulled back from Oracle-linked data-center project lending," which has "[pushed] borrowing costs to levels typically reserved for non-investment grade companies." Furthermore, "Oracle has already tapped debt markets heavily... and US banks are increasingly reluctant to provide more."Two analysts interviewed in the article have differing views. Sanchit Vir Gogia, of Greyhound Research, views Oracle cloud contracts as a "shared infrastructure risk," stating, "If they can't fund it, they can't build it. And if they can't build it, you can't run your workloads." Franco Chiam of ICD Asia/Pacific has a more optimistic take on Oracle's finances, pointing to "cloud infrastructure revenue growing 66% year over year... and GPU-related infrastructure up 177%"I'm personally wondering about where all that revenue for GPU-related infrastructure comes from. If we are in an AI bubble, can demand be sustained?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Snotnose writes:What do you do when it's time to upgrade an ancient system? Put an image in an emulator and see what it does. But what if the program requires a hardware dongle on the printer port? Therein lies a story.

progo writes:Many IT professionals, especially system administrators and developers, use Notepad++ as their default text editor on Windows, because Windows Notepad has historically been missing critical features for power users.Today, the Notepad++ project announced that they've discovered their update channel has been compromised by attackers since June 2025.BleepingComputer published a report: