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

8 hours 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

8 hours ago

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway -- Opinion -- OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived

8 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

10 days ago

Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks -- MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant

9 hours ago

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet - Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus - Science - 07 Mar 2026 - |

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

9 hours 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

9 hours ago

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

10 hours 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

13 hours 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

13 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

19 hours 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

19 hours ago

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm -- Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least -- Science

19 hours ago

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports -- Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad -- Systems

20 hours ago

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal -- Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves -- Cyber-crime

20 hours ago

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens - Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

9 hours ago

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries -- House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 -- Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up -- SaaS

21 hours ago

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals -- FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffs -- Security

22 hours ago

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification -- Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI -- Offbeat

21 hours ago

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October -- Released from the curse of the update bork fairy -- OSes

22 hours ago

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding -- It promised £1.15B... but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says -- Databases

22 hours ago

Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000 -- Attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless users -- Cyber-crime

22 hours ago

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps -- Exclusive -- Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal -- Edge + IoT

1 day ago

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway -- Opinion -- OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived -- AI + ML

1 day 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 -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites - 'focusgroup' has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone - Software - 06 Mar 2026 - | 23

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Custom Compute Engine Biz Growing More Than Marvell Ever Hoped

13 hours ago

Broadcom May Become The Biggest Counterbalance To Nvidia

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days 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

9 hours ago

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies -- Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

China's rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan -- Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China's scientists are sprinting ahead -- Systems

1 day ago

Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year -- Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech -- Security

1 day ago

Okta CEO 'paranoid' as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears -- It's ok, Todd. You're only paranoid if you're wrong. -- SaaS

1 day ago

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor -- Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? -- Science

1 day ago

Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks -- MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

3 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

13 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

1 day ago

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 - | 15

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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

1 day ago

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 day ago

French DNA coming to a datacenter near you soon

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News ticker – March 6

20 hours ago

What's the M in MWC stand for? Memory if you're Micron or SK Hynix

1 day ago

Nasuni buys Resilio following torrent of exec changes

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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 - | 25

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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

1 day 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

3 days ago

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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 - | 19

18 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

1 day 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

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

10 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

25 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.

1 month 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

10 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage' Updated - Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft - Networks - 04 Mar 2026 - | 101

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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

3 days 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

3 days 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

3 days 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

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