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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 9:06 AM ET

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Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records -- Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people -- Cyber-crime

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Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers - Opinion - Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us - Security - 10 Mar 2026 - | 1

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Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12 -- Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials -- Cyber-crime

1 hour ago

Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope -- Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks -- Offbeat

2 hours ago

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts -- E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

14 hours ago

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours -- David and Goliath...but with AI agents

2 hours ago

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns -- This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

20 hours ago

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff -- As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs 'real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments'

34 minutes ago

Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights - Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again - Systems - 10 Mar 2026 - |

2 hours ago

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers -- Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases -- As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream -- Virtualization

4 hours ago

SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed -- Solar winds near aliens' homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals -- Science

6 hours ago

HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay -- With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins -- Systems

9 hours ago

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff -- As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs 'real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments' -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool -- First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues -- Devops

12 hours ago

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours -- David and Goliath...but with AI agents -- Security

14 hours ago

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought - Kettle - Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

18 hours ago

Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds -- Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent -- Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist - And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks - Cyber-crime - 09 Mar 2026 - |

14 hours ago

Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream -- Calls Musk's orbital plans "speculative" despite Bezos touting orbiting compute -- Science

18 hours ago

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon -- Not a US flag in sight -- Science

16 hours ago

Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web - opinion - Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things - Personal Tech - 09 Mar 2026 - | 65

14 minutes ago

'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents -- Three agents is about all we can handle -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts -- E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy -- Applications

20 hours ago

EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen - Exclusive - An attack on the company's AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses - Cyber-crime - 09 Mar 2026 - | 13

1 hour ago

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry -- But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source -- Databases

22 hours ago

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 -- Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export -- Applications

22 hours ago

We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test

15 hours ago

How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing

23 hours ago

Custom Compute Engine Biz Growing More Than Marvell Ever Hoped

3 days ago

Broadcom May Become The Biggest Counterbalance To Nvidia

4 days 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

18 hours ago

Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B -- Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker -- On-Prem

23 hours ago

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma -- Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country -- Security

23 hours ago

Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts -- Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead -- Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander -- Science

1 day ago

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns -- This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters -- UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible' -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is -- Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late -- Science

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NPMX PACKAGE BROWSER RELEASED AS ALPHA TO FIX PAIN OF USING NPMJS

1 day ago

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

6 days ago

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

11 days ago

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

11 days ago

How AI is boosting gender equality in high-performance racing - A virtual Driver Agent is leveling the odds for female motorsport drivers - Sponsored Post

21 hours ago

UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone -- Opinion -- Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers -- Databases

1 day ago

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat - Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks - Edge + IoT - 09 Mar 2026 - | 95

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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract -- Who, Me? -- Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss -- Networks

1 day ago

Box pitches 'virtual filesystem' layer for AI agents

15 hours ago

MariaDB buys GridGain to cut latency for AI inference workloads

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Storage news ticker – March 9

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How AI is boosting gender equality in high-performance racing

20 hours ago

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds - World War Fee - Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack - Legal - 09 Mar 2026 - | 26

34 minutes ago

NASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour -- You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers -- Science

1 day ago

Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP -- PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India's PC market fails to launch, again; And more -- Systems

1 day ago

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

4 days ago

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more -- Security

1 day ago

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work -- interview -- Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg -- Security

2 days ago

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom - What hath science wrought? Bootnotes - 08 Mar 2026 - | 52

19 hours ago

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics -- feature -- Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits -- Systems

3 days ago

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services -- 'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall' -- AI + ML

3 days ago

60 YEARS SINCE HUMANITY FIRST TOUCHED THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET -- Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus -- Science

1 day ago

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids -- Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia -- Systems

1 day ago

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact -- It's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Don't blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say -- US unemployment ticked up to 4.4% -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits -- Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones -- Steals SMS messages, location data, contacts ... and delivers it to Hamas-linked crew -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

US state laws push age checks into the operating system -- Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS -- OSes

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

14 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

14 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

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack -- Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court' -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm -- Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least -- Science

3 days ago

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports -- Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad -- Systems

4 days ago

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal -- Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries -- House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 -- Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up -- SaaS

4 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

6 days ago

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals -- FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffs -- Security

4 days ago

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification -- Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October -- Released from the curse of the update bork fairy -- OSes

4 days ago

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding - Updated - It promised £1.15B... but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says - Databases - 06 Mar 2026 - | 14

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Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000 -- Attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless users -- Cyber-crime

4 days 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

4 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 days 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

4 days 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

4 days 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

4 days 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

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