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Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs - Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway? AI + ML - 05 Mar 2026 - |

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Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations - Updated - FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things - Networks - 05 Mar 2026 - | 16

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Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI -- Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help

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'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes -- Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors'

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

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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

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You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it - You made a - time machine - vapemobile ... out of a - Delorean - G-Wiz? Offbeat - 05 Mar 2026 - | 1

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Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation -- LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet -- Public Sector

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Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan -- Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready -- Science

1 hour ago

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet -- Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online -- Software

3 hours ago

NPMX PACKAGE BROWSER RELEASED AS ALPHA TO FIX PAIN OF USING NPMJS -- Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface -- Software

4 hours ago

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience -- Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything' -- Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables -- Security

6 hours ago

Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity -- Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons' -- Science

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CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes - Updated - Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes - Science - 05 Mar 2026 - | 8

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MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again -- Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months -- Networks

8 hours 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

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UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty -- Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators -- Software

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Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI -- Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help -- AI + ML

9 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

13 hours 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

13 hours ago

Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon -- Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all -- Systems

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'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes -- Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors' -- Cyber-crime

17 hours ago

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

21 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

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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

23 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

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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

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

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With Cisco Outshift, Agentic AI Is Teed Up For the Internet Of Cognition

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Nvidia Sees The Light On Silicon Photonics And Maybe Optical Switching

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AI Servers Finally Dominate Dell's Systems Business

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies -- Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection -- Personal Tech

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

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

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

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From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

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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

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

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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

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Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US -- Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again -- PaaS + IaaS

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Nasuni buys Resilio following torrent of exec changes

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Missouri team shows how to rewrite bits stored in DNA

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 - |

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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 -- Security

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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 - | 24

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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

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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

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Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut -- No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple -- Personal Tech

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Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases -- After DHS's $2.3M PenLink contract gets 'shady' label -- Public Sector

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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

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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

9 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

9 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

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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.

27 days 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The AI confidence gap that's costing IT leaders control - Companies pursuing AI face a gap between perception and practice - Sponsored Post

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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

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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

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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

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Cybercriminals swipe 15.8M medical records from French doctors ministry -- Third-party software supplier breached leading to leak of notes -- Cyber-crime

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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 - |

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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

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