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Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes -- Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating -- Applications

23 hours ago

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un -- Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab -- Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting -- Software

1 day ago

Iran's cyberattack against med tech firm is 'just the beginning' -- Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack' -- Security

1 day ago

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system -- Rozum orchestrates multiple flaky models and drives them to reasonable conclusions -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports -- Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Japan to allow 'proactive cyber-defense' from October 1st -- In less polite places, this is called 'hacking back' or 'offensive cyber-ops' -- Security

1 day ago

World - Coin - 's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - Sell your soul to the orb - Security - 17 Mar 2026 - | 20

19 hours ago

AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left -- Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart -- Off-Prem -- 17 Mar 2026

1 day ago

EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach -- State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties -- Security

2 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

23 days ago

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary - Opinion - From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything

2 hours ago

Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market -- Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth?

2 hours ago

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un -- Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators

21 hours ago

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes -- Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating

7 hours ago

FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again - Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable - Legal - 19 Mar 2026 - |

9 minutes ago

Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack -- Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune -- Cyber-crime

31 minutes ago

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI -- Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt -- Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews -- One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog -- Off-Prem

3 hours ago

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering - QCon London - It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O - AI + ML - 19 Mar 2026 - | 3

50 minutes ago

Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned -- New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want -- Software

4 hours ago

Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee -- Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price -- SaaS

4 hours ago

Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users -- Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway -- Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target -- Databases

5 hours ago

GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve -- Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers -- Public Sector

6 hours ago

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary - Opinion - From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything - AI + ML - 19 Mar 2026 - | 65

9 minutes ago

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet - Feature - SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else

21 hours ago

Google offers 'vibe design' tool that you can shout at to create a UI -- Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvas -- Software

10 hours ago

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots -- Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter -- Systems

9 hours ago

Tencent says small clouds can't get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices -- Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party -- Off-Prem

16 hours ago

Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market -- Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents -- Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns -- Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month -- Research

19 hours ago

Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health -- Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says -- The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it -- Legal

21 hours ago

Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric -- PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says -- Databases

22 hours ago

Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure - Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed - Security - 18 Mar 2026 - |

19 hours ago

Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere -- Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW -- On-Prem

23 hours ago

The Open Agentic AI World According To Nvidia

1 day ago

Nvidia Finally Admits Why It Shelled Out $20 Billion For Groq

2 days ago

Nvidia Says OpenClaw Is To Agentic AI What GPT Was To Chattybots

2 days ago

IBM Unrolls Blueprint For Quantum-Classical HPC Computing

2 days ago

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming - interview - Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

2 hours ago

Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains -- What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave -- Good luck with that -- OSes

1 day ago

Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence -- Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffle -- AI + ML

1 day ago

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state' QCon London - Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review - Software - 18 Mar 2026 - | 32

6 hours ago

Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul -- Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now -- SaaS

1 day ago

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

3 hours ago

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer

7 hours ago

Oracle introduces Project Detroit for fast Java interop with JavaScript and Python

1 day ago

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

1 day ago

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer - AI infrastructure is a systems problem. The CPU is at its center - Sponsored Post

7 hours ago

Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus -- No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months -- Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA -- Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands -- Systems

1 day ago

Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing' -- 24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

The agentic AI boom is here; operations will decide who wins - Agentic AI moves the advantage from models to operational fluency - Partner Content

1 day ago

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC

19 hours ago

HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed AI push

1 day ago

DDN, Nvidia team up to cut inference costs and boost GPU utilization

1 day ago

Nvidia GTC storage news roundup

1 day ago

Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand -- Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again -- GTC -- Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs -- Systems

1 day ago

Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a budget bière -- Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots -- AI + ML -- 17 Mar 2026

1 day ago

Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia -- gtc -- The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs -- Nvidia GTC

1 day ago

HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push -- GTC -- Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid' -- Nvidia GTC

1 day ago

Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire -- Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball -- Science

2 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

23 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

Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python - JavaOne - Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases - Devops - 17 Mar 2026 - | 12

20 hours ago

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination -- Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031 -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth -- Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 -- OSes

2 days ago

Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses -- Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information -- Networks

2 days ago

Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS -- Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change -- Storage

2 days ago

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies -- A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day -- Science

2 days ago

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

Agentic AI is forcing analytics and operations to converge - The future of AI platforms lies in converged capabilities—and sovereign infrastructure will decide the winners - Partner Content

2 days ago

Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample -- Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life -- Science

2 days ago

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes -- Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft's AI helper is not a trivial job -- Security

2 days ago

Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can't keep pace with new threats -- AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes -- Security

2 days ago

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066 -- 'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff -- SaaS

2 days ago

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley -- GTC -- Latest generation of AI image enhancer brings characters to life -- Nvidia GTC

2 days ago

Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security -- gtc -- 'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO -- Nvidia GTC

2 days ago

Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack - Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told - Cyber-crime - 16 Mar 2026 - | 1

2 days ago

Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors -- GTC -- The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores -- Nvidia GTC

2 days ago

Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time - GTC - GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever - Nvidia GTC - 16 Mar 2026 - | 1

2 days ago

Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war -- Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown -- Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects -- Devops

2 days ago

Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test -- Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising game -- AI + ML

2 days ago