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Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

The Register 12 Feb 2026
... to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices.
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Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

The Register 12 Feb 2026
Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story. Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters ... .
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Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice. Promo AI projects fail at scale not because models don't work or GPUs lack performance. They fail because data can't keep pace ... .
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Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps ...

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Great time to be a liquid cooling startup. GPUs are so hot right now – literally and metaphorically – that they’re driving mergers and acquisitions in the datacenter cooling industry ... .
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Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach

The Register 11 Feb 2026
UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak. Legacy IT issues are hampering key technical measures designed to prevent highly sensitive data leaks, UK government officials say ... .
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Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

The Register 11 Feb 2026
If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?. FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation was one of the most interesting of FOSDEM for us – as well as the funniest ... .
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River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on. FOSDEM 2026 Isaac Freund's River compositor brings a little old-fashioned modularity and customizability to the brave new Wayland world ... .
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Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor. Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE) ...
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VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the ...
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How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

The Register 11 Feb 2026
Has the OS also jumped the shark?. Microsoft's Raymond Chen has revealed an unexpected use for the company's lawyers. securing permission from the cast of Happy Days so a Weezer music video could ship on the Windows 95 CD ... .
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