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Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care -- Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales

6 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'

17 hours ago

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place -- Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near

6 hours ago

Fake job applications pack malware that kills EDR before stealing data -- Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses

11 hours ago

Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse - Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books - SaaS - 11 Mar 2026 - |

58 minutes ago

Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war -- Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure -- Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack -- Could steal sensitive personal and financial data -- Security

9 hours ago

Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages -- E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook -- Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now? -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations -- Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, too -- Cyber-crime

11 hours ago

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days -- Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030 -- Systems

13 hours ago

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet -- Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts -- Rapid7 says crims broke into more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate's campaign page -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states -- FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer -- Offbeat

13 hours ago

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place -- Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near -- Science

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

1 day ago

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care -- Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales -- Databases

15 hours ago

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments -- Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure -- Personal Tech

15 hours ago

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks -- Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them -- OSes

15 hours ago

Fake job applications pack malware that kills EDR before stealing data -- Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses -- Research

16 hours ago

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones -- Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection -- Personal Tech

16 hours ago

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

17 hours ago

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 - | 7

11 hours ago

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

18 hours ago

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

19 hours 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

19 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

20 hours ago

HPE Works Harder And Smarter To Chase Datacenter Profits

9 hours ago

We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test

1 day ago

How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing

1 day ago

Custom Compute Engine Biz Growing More Than Marvell Ever Hoped

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

1 day 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

21 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

23 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

7 days ago

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

12 days ago

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

12 days ago

Huawei outlines practical route to "industrial intelligence" at MWC 2026 - New showcases and partner solutions aim to help organizations move AI from pilots to production - Sponsored Post

8 hours ago

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

1 day 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 - |

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

LucidLink Connect streams S3 buckets without the ingest headache

9 hours ago

Box pitches 'virtual filesystem' layer for AI agents

1 day ago

MariaDB buys GridGain to cut latency for AI inference workloads

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – March 9

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web - opinion - Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things - Personal Tech - 09 Mar 2026 - | 71

4 hours ago

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

18 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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 - 09 Mar 2026 - | 9

13 hours 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

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

1 day ago

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

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

1 day 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 -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India's PC market fails to launch, again; And more -- Systems

4 hours 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

2 days 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

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

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom -- What hath science wrought? -- Bootnotes

2 days ago

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics - feature - Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits - Systems - 07 Mar 2026 - | 18

20 hours 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 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

4 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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 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

4 days ago