BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
UK’s pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate Brits will soon pay more to legally watch the BBC’s […]
Month: February 2026
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe’s top destination for tech pay
Average Swiss salaries dwarf those on offer across the rest of the continent European techies looking for the biggest payday […]
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an […]
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta’s WhatsApp AI lockout
Euro watchdog says Zuckercorp blocked rival assistants, weighs emergency action to force ’em back in Brussels has accused Meta of […]
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain’t going anywhere
Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is ‘impossible’ says vice premier Taiwan’s vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent […]
Europe’s sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite
Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is […]
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes ‘self-growing’ Moon city
FAA signs off on rocket’s return and CEO floats ambitious lunar settlement plan SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this […]
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates
West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the […]
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks
Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary’s governing body accessed The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was […]
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0
But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of […]