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AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions - UPDATED - Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery

19 hours ago

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones -- Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027

7 hours ago

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman -- Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years

4 hours ago

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace -- Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU

7 hours ago

MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver -- Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice -- Science

25 minutes ago

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts -- AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details -- AI + ML

25 minutes ago

Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut -- No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple -- Personal Tech

2 hours ago

Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases -- After DHS's $2.3M PenLink contract gets 'shady' label -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran -- No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict -- Security

4 hours ago

Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal -- The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics -- Networks

5 hours ago

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13 -- Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing -- OSes

4 hours ago

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better -- Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies -- Cyber-crime

7 hours ago

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists -- Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails -- Networks

8 hours ago

CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage -- Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline -- AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market -- Devops

8 hours ago

Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite -- AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking -- Research

8 hours ago

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix - On Call - 'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'

1 day ago

Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture -- Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman -- Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years -- Software

10 hours ago

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace -- Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions -- High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature -- Security

10 hours ago

Cybercriminals swipe 15.8M medical records from French doctors ministry -- Third-party software supplier breached leading to leak of notes -- Cyber-crime

10 hours ago

Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa -- From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITA -- Networks

12 hours ago

Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap -- Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chains -- Personal Tech

13 hours ago

Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach -- Slow disclosure and odd reassurance that exposing names and contact details won't be a problem isn't going down well -- Security

16 hours ago

Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours -- Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code -- SaaS

17 hours ago

Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world -- Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter -- On-Prem

20 hours ago

Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery -- Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens -- Security

22 hours ago

With Cisco Outshift, Agentic AI Is Teed Up For the Internet Of Cognition

11 hours ago

Nvidia Sees The Light On Silicon Photonics And Maybe Optical Switching

22 hours ago

AI Servers Finally Dominate Dell's Systems Business

1 day ago

VAST Data: What Controls The Data Is More Important Than What Stores It

1 day ago

BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely - Episode 4 - Oh. Well. Color us surprised

1 day ago

Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing - Coherent, Lumentum each walk away with $2B in cash and a multi-billion purchase commitment - Networks - 02 Mar 2026 - |

21 hours ago

Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays - Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst - Channel - 02 Mar 2026 - | 13

25 minutes ago

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions - UPDATED - Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery - PaaS + IaaS - 02 Mar 2026 - | 64

1 hour ago

Iran's cyberwar has begun -- 'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future' -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack -- Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived' -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones -- Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027 -- OSes

1 day ago

US struck Iran with copies of its own drones -- Iran's own technology reverse engineered and used against it. -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

1 hour ago

Top Microsoft execs fret about impact of AI on software engineering profession

5 days ago

GitHub Dependabot is a 'noise machine', and should be turned off, says Go library maintainer

5 days ago

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

10 days ago

AI agents need orchestration - not just intelligence - This virtual launch event could be the answer to your agentic problems - Sponsored Post

4 days ago

UK businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk -- NCSC urges all to review posture as escalating tensions increase risk of indirect digital spillover -- Cyber-crime

12 hours ago

Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was -- Meanwhile, formal 6G specs are still in the works -- Networks

1 day ago

Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters -- Saves real estate by putting the power on the water -- Systems

1 day ago

VAST Data says it's still a storage company at heart, says shortages a 'wake-up call to the flash vendors' to build more

11 hours ago

Filecoin vets roll out distributed storage service on 'blockchain rails'

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – March 2

1 day ago

Druva uses graph relationships to mine metadata

1 day ago

Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand -- Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations -- Devops

1 day ago

Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak -- Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading isn't allowed -- OSes

12 hours ago

Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck -- Artemis III now to follow in Apollo 9's footsteps, 2028 landing still planned for Artemis IV -- Science

1 day ago

The AI confidence gap that's costing IT leaders control - Companies pursuing AI face a gap between perception and practice - Sponsored Post

6 days ago

SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata -- A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids -- Databases

1 day ago

Memory scalpers hunt scarce DRAM with bot blitz -- We can remember it for you wholesale, and sell it back to you for big bucks -- Security

1 day ago

Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes -- Vulnerable citizens targeted by criminals purporting to represent fake police crisis department -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell -- More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016 -- OSes

1 day ago

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality -- A handy feature you can already try in recent versions -- Software

1 day ago

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes -- Official monitoring shows connectivity collapsing to near-zero -- Networks

1 day ago

Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here - Opinion - Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass - Columnists - 02 Mar 2026 - | 26

3 hours ago

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go -- Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora -- Applications

1 day ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction -- Who, Me? -- Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors! -- On-Prem

1 day ago

OpenAI's Altman says Pentagon set 'scary precedent' binning Anthropic -- Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he's kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails -- AI + ML

1 day ago

UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection -- Security

1 day ago

South Korea's tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto -- Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds -- Cyber-crime

1 day 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

7 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

7 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

22 days 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.

25 days ago

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports - New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score - Personal Tech - 01 Mar 2026 - | 69

25 minutes ago

AWS Middle East disrupted after 'objects struck datacenter' amid Iran war -- Asia In brief -- PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia's WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more! -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw -- Interview -- A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform -- AI + ML

2 days ago

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again -- Opinion -- Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle -- SaaS

2 days ago

Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government' -- Interview -- Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all -- Research

3 days ago

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download -- Opinion -- Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks -- Databases

1 day ago

Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool - Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife - Cyber-crime - 27 Feb 2026 - |

4 days ago

How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation - HPE designs storage with AI realities in mind - Partner Content

12 days ago

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government - updated - Without a single 'You're Fired' joke - Public Sector - 27 Feb 2026 - | 140

1 day ago

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought -- 'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception' -- Systems

4 days ago

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on -- ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs -- Who is knocking at the Dohdoor? -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge -- Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid -- Systems

4 days ago

Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests -- Let's hope air cargo checks don't trigger the same headaches -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers -- Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims -- Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings? -- Applications

4 days ago

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs -- Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded -- Research

4 days ago

French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen - Updated - Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor - Cyber-crime - 27 Feb 2026 - | 9

23 hours ago

Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027 -- Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes -- Systems

4 days ago

Cops back Dutch telco Odido after second wave of ShinyHunters leaks -- Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago