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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

18 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

6 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

6 hours ago

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

13 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 hour 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 hour 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 hour 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

4 hours ago

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

9 hours 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

5 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

10 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

11 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

11 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

13 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

14 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

15 hours ago

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

6 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

16 hours ago

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

16 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

17 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

17 hours ago

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

18 hours ago

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

19 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

19 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

21 hours ago

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

5 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

2 days ago

AI Servers Finally Dominate Dell's Systems Business

2 days ago

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

6 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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 - |

23 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 -- Security

1 day 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 - | 23

4 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

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

20 hours 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

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

Missouri team shows how to rewrite bits stored in DNA

11 hours ago

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

14 hours ago

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

15 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

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

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

1 day 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

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

5 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

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

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

1 day 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

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

1 day 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

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

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

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 -- Security

1 day ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 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 - |

2 days 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 - | 15

18 hours 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

14 hours 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

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

2 days 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

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