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Wednesday, 18 February 2026

UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards Tue 17 Feb 2026

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays Tue 17 Feb 2026

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance Tue 17 Feb 2026

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required Tue 17 Feb 2026

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false' Tue 17 Feb 2026

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

Repo mirrors now open for business Tue 17 Feb 2026

£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo Tue 17 Feb 2026

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation Tue 17 Feb 2026

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat Tue 17 Feb 2026

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries Tue 17 Feb 2026

Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper

Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid Tue 17 Feb 2026

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk' Tue 17 Feb 2026

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated? Tue 17 Feb 2026

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds

Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? Tue 17 Feb 2026

Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses Tue 17 Feb 2026

All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job

$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater' Tue 17 Feb 2026

GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale

CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years Tue 17 Feb 2026

China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'

Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year Tue 17 Feb 2026

Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow

It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much Tue 17 Feb 2026

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser Tue 17 Feb 2026

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