ICYMI: Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000
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ICYMI: Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?
Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.
Reported this two weeks ago
This shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being taken and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
I also saw @ofalafel.bsky.social in Bristol and highly recommend!
OpenAI research hub a ‘vote of confidence’ in UK, says Kendall.
Science secretary hails tech giant’s choice of London for largest office outside the US.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...
Four new national compute resources (NCRs) will help solve some of society’s biggest challenges, from healthcare to climate change.
The NCRs aim to drive economic growth and keep the UK at the cutting edge of science.
The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.
One of the many reasons it's important to have the BBC, our own national public service broadcaster, independent of tech giants, advertisers, proprietors, government, dedicated to providing factual news, fact-checking, and accountable to licence fee payers. #Russia #disinformation #AI #propaganda
A small black robot with two robotic arms at the front and a camera mounted on top.
Here's a photo of one of Icarus Robotics' semi-autonomous teleoperated robots — an important milestone as they build towards fully autonomous systems.
Find out more by listening to Episode 146 of Robot Talk - available on all major podcast providers: linktr.ee/robottalkpod #Robotics
There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
Today the NCSC has issued a warning highlighting Pro-Russian Hacktivist groups are targeting sectors across the UK.
All organisations are urged to act now by reviewing and implementing our free guidance to protect against DoS attacks.
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Best of British: UK's infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture
Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice
Britain's digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as "ambassadors" to help organizations across the land embrac…
#hackernews #news
So, like a kind of quantum AI?
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
⚠️ Kubernetes ingress-nginx retires March 2026.
Key statements:
• No security patches after retirement.
• Ingress-nginx powers ~50% of environments.
• Migration to Gateway API is recommended.
• There are no direct drop-in replacements.
Read more: kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive Open Source SecurityCon
🛡️ Interested in securing open source systems at scale?
Open Source SecurityCon returns at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU to talk policy, supply chain, & security challenges.
More from co-chairs Brandt Keller & @entlein.bsky.social (Constanze Roedig): www.cncf.io/blog/2026/02...
#CNCF #Security
A milestone for the Kubernetes inference ecosystem, shared by @terrytangyuan.xyz (Yuan Tang):
WG Serving has completed its mission and is transitioning ongoing work forward. Thank you to everyone who contributed, and to the teams carrying the work forward!
#Kubernetes #CloudNative #AI
"The data reveals a troubling disconnect: while AI coding tools deliver remarkable productivity gains, Veracode research shows that 45% of AI-generated code samples fail security tests, introducing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities into production systems."
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/vib...
AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter (me) to be hacked. The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in popular AI coding platform Orchids. The case highlights the potential risks of the ongoing vibe-coding gold rush. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Unseen Vulnerabilities of Vibe Coding: A Deep Dive into AI-Generated Application Security + Video
Introduction: The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for software development, often termed "vibe coding," presents a paradigm shift in how applications are built. While this approach…
reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month. Traffic to our docs is down about 40% from early 2023 despite Tailwind being more popular than ever. The docs are the only way people find out about our commercial products, and without customers we can't afford to maintain the framework. I really want to figure out a way to offer LLM-optimized docs that don't make that situation even worse (again we literally had to lay off 75% of the team yesterday), but I can't prioritize it right now unfortunately, and I'm nervous to offer them without solving that problem first. @PaulRBerg I don't see the AGENTS.md stuff we offer as part of the sponsorship program as anything similar to this at all — that's just a short markdown file with a bunch of my own personal opinions and what I consider best practices to nudge LLMs into writing their Tailwind stuff in a specific way. It's not the docs at all, and I resent the accusation that I am not disclosing my "true intentions" here or something. @mtsears4 Tailwind is growing faster than it ever has and is bigger than it ever has been, and our revenue is down close to 80%. Right now there's just no correlation between making Tailwind easier to use and making development of the framework more sustainable. I need to fix that before making Tailwind easier to use benefits anyone, because if I can't fix that this project is going to become unmaintained abandonware when there is no one left employed to work on it. I appreciate the sentiment and agree in spirit, it's just more complicated than that in reality right now.
AI is taking and not giving and it's crushing open-source software projects. Just a month ago, Tailwinds fired 75 percent of its engineers. Why?
The study said that vibe coding is reducing the cost of software development, but that there are other costs people aren’t considering. “The interaction with human users is collapsing faster than development costs are falling,” Koren told 404 Media. “The key insight is that vibe coding is very easy to adopt. Even for a small increase in capability, a lot of people would switch. And recent coding models are very capable. AI companies have also begun targeting business users and other knowledge workers, which further eats into the potential ‘deep-pocket’ user base of OSS.” This won’t end well. “Vibe coding is not sustainable without open source,” Koren said. “You cannot just freeze the current state of OSS and live off of that. Projects need to be maintained, bugs fixed, security vulnerabilities patched. If OSS collapses, vibe coding will go down with it. I think we have to speak up and act now to stop that from happening.”
the productivity and revenue gains aren't outpacing the costs to the tech that underpins the whole system
Why subscribe to a software stack when Claude can write you a custom model that you use once then throw away?
(Chart via MS desk) $IGV
Forward P/E chart of IGV. Trading at 20.9x at yesterday close. Down another 2% this morning.
Over both the last 5-yr and 10-yr periods, $IGV (expanded tech-software sector ETF) has traded at an average forward P/E premium to the S&P 500 of about 74%.
Friday was the first day that it ever traded at a discount valuation.
Today it is trading at nearly a 10% discount.
FEDWATCH: “.. The gap between compute and software is approaching 50 percent, the widest since 2022, and underscores what the market evaluates as the impact of AI disruption on the value of software.”
$IGV
