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Operating Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud -- International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries -- Cyber-crime

13 minutes ago

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward -- Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak's Astound merge - Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' Networks - 12 Mar 2026 - | 1

13 minutes ago

Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not -- Microsoft insists rebootless updates are 'the quickest way to get secure' -- OSes

1 day ago

EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later - Analysis - Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams - Security - 11 Mar 2026 - | 5

7 hours ago

Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon -- Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can't flag obvious AI slop

1 hour ago

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI -- Company is 'reshaping our skill mix' amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers

1 hour ago

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns -- This is not satire, but we wish it was

16 hours ago

Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants -- State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted

1 hour ago

Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M -- Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more -- AI + ML

26 minutes ago

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again -- The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies' -- AI + ML

56 minutes ago

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 - Obit - Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time - Software - 12 Mar 2026 - | 12

26 minutes ago

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag -- Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury -- Science

2 hours ago

CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild -- No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration -- US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract -- Databases

3 hours ago

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions -- Updated -- Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments... just not their own -- Applications

3 hours ago

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going -- Offbeat

5 hours ago

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials -- Science

5 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

21 hours ago

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue -- Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook -- On-Prem

6 hours ago

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying -- Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 -- Out of the Copilot and into the fire -- Personal Tech

10 hours ago

Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon - Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can't flag obvious AI slop - Systems - 12 Mar 2026 - |

5 hours ago

China's CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds -- Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it -- Security

11 hours ago

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI -- Company is 'reshaping our skill mix' amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers -- SaaS

17 hours ago

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban -- Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appeal -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm -- Meanwhile, Verifone says 'no evidence' to support the digital intruders' claims -- Cyber-crime

19 hours ago

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows -- I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that? -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers -- 150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested -- Cyber-crime

22 hours ago

Eridu Cuts To The AI Networking Chase With High Radix Switch System

19 hours ago

HPE Works Harder And Smarter To Chase Datacenter Profits

1 day ago

We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test

2 days ago

How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing

3 days 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

2 days ago

NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans -- Inspector general flags Starship risks and gaps in testing -- Offbeat

1 day ago

ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case -- Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine -- Security

1 day ago

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh -- Let them eat cores -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - Exclusive - Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Systems - 11 Mar 2026 - | 4

19 hours ago

Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half -- Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables -- On-Prem

1 day ago

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet

1 day ago

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

1 day ago

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

3 days ago

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

8 days ago

Building the UK's next generation of cyber talent - Reflecting on the relaunch of the UK Cyber Team and introducing the next phase of leadership - Partner Content

1 day ago

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you -- Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards -- 17-year-old allegedly withdrew large sums of cash from ATMs -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Qdrant pockets $50M to push composable vector search

2 hours ago

VAST Data raises $1B at $30B valuation as AI storage demand surges

19 hours ago

HPE networking boom offsets server dip as revenue hits $9.3B

19 hours ago

Cohesity builds guardrails for rogue AI agents and their data access

19 hours ago

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study -- Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent -- Networks

1 day 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

1 day ago

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy -- Feature -- AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Watchdog clears £142M Post Office subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill -- CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mount -- Software

1 day ago

Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it -- Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower -- Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job -- SaaS

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

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

16 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

16 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

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them -- Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe

20 hours ago

DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source -- Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only

15 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns -- This is not satire, but we wish it was

6 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

17 hours ago

Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants -- State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted

2 hours ago

AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before - Opinion - Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might not

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

2 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

1 hour ago

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

26 minutes 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

3 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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 - | 8

1 day 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago