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In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies -- A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day -- Science

8 minutes ago

AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals -- Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable

7 hours ago

Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test -- Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising game

7 hours ago

Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/ -- 'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility

12 hours ago

Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI - Updated - F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance

7 hours ago

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead -- Off-Prem

35 minutes ago

Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample -- Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life -- Science

1 hour ago

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes -- Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft's AI helper is not a trivial job -- Security

1 hour ago

Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can't keep pace with new threats -- AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes -- Security

2 hours ago

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming -- interview -- Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066 -- 'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff -- SaaS

9 hours ago

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley -- GTC -- The latest generation of Nvidia's AI image enhancer brings characters to life -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security - gtc - 'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO - Nvidia GTC - 16 Mar 2026 - | 3

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Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack - Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told - Cyber-crime - 16 Mar 2026 - |

11 hours ago

Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors -- The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores -- Nvidia GTC

12 hours ago

Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time -- GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever -- Nvidia GTC

12 hours ago

BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge - Episode 5 - The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI

12 hours ago

Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war - Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' Cyber-crime - 16 Mar 2026 - |

11 hours ago

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown -- Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects -- Devops

14 hours ago

Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test -- Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising game -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals -- Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable -- Cyber-crime

15 hours ago

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers -- Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about -- Science

7 hours ago

Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI - Updated - F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance - AI + ML - 16 Mar 2026 - | 5

5 hours ago

Apple's MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years -- iFixit opens Apple's budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components -- Personal Tech

18 hours ago

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30% -- McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff -- AI + ML

18 hours ago

Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems - Opinion - Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California's legal lunacy - OSes - 16 Mar 2026 - | 65

49 minutes ago

Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records -- Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork -- Security

18 hours ago

Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/ -- 'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility -- Applications

20 hours ago

Nvidia Says OpenClaw Is To Agentic AI What GPT Was To Chattybots

4 hours ago

IBM Unrolls Blueprint For Quantum-Classical HPC Computing

7 hours ago

Women Get Data-Driven Health Boost As The FA Tackles Sports Science's Male Bias

16 hours ago

Four Months Into Its Comeback, Zapata Stakes Its Claim In Quantum Software

4 days ago

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - On Call - Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?

1 day ago

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power -- 'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics -- HPC

20 hours ago

West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times -- Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M -- Databases

21 hours ago

Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny -- System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments -- Public Sector

21 hours ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble -- Who, Me? -- Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus -- On-Prem

1 day ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint -- Off-Prem

23 hours ago

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection -- Dark Dalek drama to stream this April -- Offbeat

1 day ago

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants -- Asia in brief -- PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more -- AI + ML

21 hours ago

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

3 days ago

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

4 days ago

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet

5 days ago

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

5 days ago

Women get data-driven health boost as FA tackles sports science's male bias - Google Cloud helps England's women's team optimize performance using data from actual, um, women - Sponsored Post

15 hours ago

Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more -- Security

1 day ago

Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class -- Kettle -- Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters - Most don't think they are good for the environment. On-Prem - 15 Mar 2026 - | 16

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Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs -- Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid -- Biological computing is messy and gassy – It's now cloudy, too -- Science

2 days ago

Claude charts a new course with charts, of course -- Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Building the UK's next generation of cyber talent - Reflecting on the relaunch of the UK Cyber Team and introducing the next phase of leadership - Partner Content

5 days ago

Everpure dives deeper into AI

7 hours ago

Dell's AI story electrified by Lightning

7 hours ago

Women get data-driven health boost as FA tackles sports science's male bias

15 hours ago

Storage news ticker - 13 March

3 days ago

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan -- Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks

3 days ago

'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops -- An incident in Macau -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others -- And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date -- Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over -- Applications

3 days ago

Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg -- 35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions -- Software

3 days ago

Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge -- Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own -- AI + ML

3 days ago

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it -- Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot -- Storage

3 days ago

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 -- 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' -- Science

3 days ago

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns -- Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting - Opinion - Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis - OSes - 13 Mar 2026 - | 217

5 hours ago

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

20 days ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

20 days ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

1 month ago

Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative -- A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

1 month ago

NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents -- exclusive -- Take your YOLO and box it up -- Security

3 days ago

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack -- Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 -- Patches

3 days ago

Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them -- Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults -- Networks

3 days ago

AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 -- From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town -- Systems

3 days ago

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years -- Didn't say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job -- SaaS

4 days ago

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China -- Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Huawei outlines practical route to "industrial intelligence" at MWC 2026 - New showcases and partner solutions aim to help organizations move AI from pilots to production - Sponsored Post

6 days ago

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes -- Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets -- Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy -- Research

4 days ago

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us -- Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer -- AI + ML

4 days ago

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data -- Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information -- It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice -- AI + ML

4 days ago

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms -- Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline -- OEM delays have become patient care delays -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud -- International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M -- Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again -- The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies' -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward -- Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 - Obit - Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time - Software - 12 Mar 2026 - | 60

1 day ago