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

2 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

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

6 hours 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

12 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

1 day ago

Managers try AI, staff lag behind: HR urged to help -- Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption -- AI + ML

2 hours 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

4 hours 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

5 hours ago

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

5 hours 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

7 hours 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

8 hours 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

8 hours 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

9 hours 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

9 hours 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

9 hours 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

9 hours ago

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

2 days ago

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

9 hours 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

10 hours 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

11 hours ago

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

12 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

13 hours 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

15 hours 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

19 hours 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

21 hours 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

23 hours 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 - |

16 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Nvidia Sees The Light On Silicon Photonics And Maybe Optical Switching

1 day ago

AI Servers Finally Dominate Dell's Systems Business

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

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 - | 22

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

6 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

11 days 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

14 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

Missouri team shows how to rewrite bits stored in DNA

5 hours ago

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

7 hours ago

Seagate HAMRs out production deal for 44TB Mozaic4+ drives with hyperscaler

9 hours 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

5 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

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

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

8 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

8 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

23 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.

26 days 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 - |

1 day 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

2 days 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 - | 72

8 hours ago

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

2 days ago

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

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

15 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

13 hours ago

Gamers furious as indie 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

18 hours 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

6 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

17 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

3 hours ago

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

2 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

1 hour ago

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

23 minutes ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

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

7 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

1 day 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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

1 day 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

2 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago