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Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites - 'focusgroup' has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone - Software - 06 Mar 2026 - | 9

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NPMX PACKAGE BROWSER RELEASED AS ALPHA TO FIX PAIN OF USING NPMJS -- Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface

11 hours ago

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience -- Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in

11 hours ago

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes -- Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors'

18 hours ago

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage' -- Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

18 hours ago

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps -- Exclusive -- Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal -- Edge + IoT

23 minutes ago

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway -- Opinion -- OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out -- On Call -- Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to do -- On-Prem

2 hours ago

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies -- Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war -- Off-Prem

6 hours ago

China's rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan - Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China's scientists are sprinting ahead - Systems - 06 Mar 2026 - |

8 hours ago

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens -- Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk -- Software

8 hours ago

Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year -- Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech -- Security

10 hours ago

Okta CEO 'paranoid' as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears -- It's ok, Todd. You're only paranoid if you're wrong. -- SaaS

11 hours ago

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor -- Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? -- Science

13 hours ago

Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks -- MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant -- Cyber-crime

14 hours ago

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs -- Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway? -- AI + ML

15 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

18 hours ago

You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it - You made a - time machine - vapemobile ... out of a - Delorean - G-Wiz? Offbeat - 05 Mar 2026 - | 10

23 minutes ago

Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation -- LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet -- Public Sector

15 hours ago

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan -- Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready -- Science

17 hours ago

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet -- Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online -- Software

19 hours ago

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations - Updated - FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things - Networks - 05 Mar 2026 - | 18

1 hour ago

NPMX PACKAGE BROWSER RELEASED AS ALPHA TO FIX PAIN OF USING NPMJS -- Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface -- Software

20 hours ago

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience -- Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything' -- Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables -- Security

22 hours ago

Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity -- Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons' -- Science

22 hours ago

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes - Updated - Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes - Science - 05 Mar 2026 - | 14

9 hours ago

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again -- Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months -- Networks

23 hours ago

Broadcom May Become The Biggest Counterbalance To Nvidia

13 hours ago

Ayar Labs Gets $500 Million To Ramp Photonics Into 2028 AI Systems

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Nvidia Sees The Light On Silicon Photonics And Maybe Optical Switching

3 days ago

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

1 day ago

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty -- Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators -- Software

1 day ago

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI -- Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help -- AI + ML

11 hours ago

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it -- Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars -- Legal

1 day ago

Broadcom says AI companies can't make their own silicon any time soon -- Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business -- Systems

1 day ago

Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon -- Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all -- Systems

1 day ago

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes -- Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors' -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Malware-laced OpenClaw installers get Bing AI search boost -- Think before you download -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

7 days ago

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

12 days ago

Rethinking storage for the AI era - Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow - Sponsored Post

1 hour ago

HR may have to cajole and soothe reluctant employees to get them to use AI -- Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise -- Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice -- Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more! -- AI + ML

1 day ago

What's the M in MWC stand for? Memory if you're Micron or SK Hynix

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Nasuni buys Resilio following torrent of exec changes

19 hours ago

Missouri team shows how to rewrite bits stored in DNA

1 day ago

Businesses still struggling to manage data budgets, deliver ROI when it comes to AI

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AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now -- Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected -- Crooks claim 2 GB haul from AWS instance via React2Shell exploit -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits -- Jim Bridenstine says 'adjustments' to Artemis program were needed -- Science

1 day ago

Huawei pushes networks toward AI-driven intelligence at MWC Barcelona 2026 - Carrier infrastructure moves beyond connectivity to integrate AI functions at the heart of network operations - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command -- London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation -- Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats -- Security

1 day ago

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts -- The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI -- AI + ML

1 day ago

NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout -- New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies -- Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed -- Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor -- Software

1 day ago

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation -- James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US -- Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again -- PaaS + IaaS

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Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low' -- Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement -- Databases

1 day ago

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage' -- Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft -- Networks

18 hours ago

Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform -- Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware -- Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM -- Systems

2 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

9 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

9 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

24 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.

27 days ago

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites -- Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes -- Networks

2 days ago

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks -- Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe -- Software

2 days ago

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush -- The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets - Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference - Systems - 03 Mar 2026 - |

2 days ago

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town -- Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed -- Security

2 days ago

Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business - Updated - Go outside and smell some flowers - Networks - 03 Mar 2026 - | 25

13 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

2 days ago

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

9 days 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

2 days 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 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago