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Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 96

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Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat

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BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now? Episode 6 - Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics

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Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence

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Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours -- AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity

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The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed -- Secret CEO -- And developers should be confident it won't kill the craft -- AI + ML

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Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze -- Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk -- Science

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Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession -- The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public -- AI + ML

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To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days -- Bootnotes

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Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation -- On-Prem

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Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right -- Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it -- AI + ML

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Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow -- Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers -- Personal Tech

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Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue -- On-Prem

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Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program -- Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust -- OSes

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Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence -- Science

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AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans -- Vulns in Dutch football club's systems didn't just expose data – they let outsiders play with accounts, and even lift stadium bans -- Cyber-crime

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BOFH - : Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now? Episode 6 - Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics - BOFH - 27 Mar 2026 - | 47

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AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar - Interview - Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away

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Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones -- US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadline -- Offbeat

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Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users -- A botched update mixed up transaction data across accounts, with thousands now receiving goodwill payouts -- Software

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UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector

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Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys -- Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code -- Research

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India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector

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China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country -- Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition -- Legal

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Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours -- AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity -- AI + ML

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AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring -- You actually think companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age? -- AI + ML

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AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region -- Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here. -- PaaS + IaaS

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AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech

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Demonstrating The Scientific Usefulness Of Quantum Systems

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We Need Servers – Lots Of Servers. . . .

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Arm Comes Full Circle With Homegrown, AI-Tuned Server CPU

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Riding The Memory Boom And Trying To Avoid The Bust

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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

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'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector

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Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure -- Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code -- Devops

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Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech

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Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds -- Your AI rollout isn't failing – your employees just hate it -- AI + ML

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Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead -- Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code -- Software

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Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |

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Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech -- Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long -- AI + ML

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Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

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JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming

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Mozilla introduces cq: 'Stack Overflow for agents'

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Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI

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Explainer: Why AI is breaking enterprise virtualization - Your virtualization infrastructure probably isn't AI-ready. But that's OK - HPE has the answer - Sponsored Post

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Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list -- Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push -- PaaS + IaaS

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Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML

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UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector

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Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech

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Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan -- Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure -- Security

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Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem

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Data analytics help make the mighty lionesses roar - Technology hones player decisions for women's team - Sponsored Post

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Storage news ticker - 27 March

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Three SSD makers buy into Nanya to secure DRAM supply

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The NAND and disk supply squeeze puts tape back on the agenda for Quantum

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Komprise's Flash Stretch tiers NAS to Cloud for flash capacity savings

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GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all -- As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out -- Devops

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AI supply chain attacks don't even require malware...just post poisoned documentation -- A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization -- Security

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Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud -- They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone -- Cyber-crime

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Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year - RSAC 2026 - Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security - RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

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Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

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Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI -- Forget the metaverse -- AI + ML

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Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains -- Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution -- Applications

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Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science

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OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become -- AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? -- AI + ML

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Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs -- In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers -- Applications

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Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML

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NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers - Opinion - Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase? Science - 25 Mar 2026 - | 24

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How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI - Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

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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

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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

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

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JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming -- Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas -- AI + ML

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Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech

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Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes

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HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector

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Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra -- Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach -- Personal Tech

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Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - Opinion - A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code - Software - 25 Mar 2026 - | 98

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YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply -- BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown -- Personal Tech

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Explainer: AI-ready servers - GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit - The Register Explainer

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Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K -- AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it? -- Public Sector

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Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs -- Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google -- Personal Tech

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Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle -- Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads -- Software

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Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China's top AI models -- Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare -- Systems

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HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz -- HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room. -- Personal Tech

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AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine -- Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles -- Systems

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EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom -- interview -- Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government -- Security

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1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack -- RSAC 2026 -- Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects -- RSA

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Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus -- Science

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LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised -- Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline -- Security

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AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks -- Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay -- AI + ML

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Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city -- Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift -- Off-Prem

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