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'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops -- An incident in Macau

3 hours ago

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan - Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

2 hours ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint - Off-Prem - 16 Mar 2026 - |

8 minutes ago

Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters - Infosec In Brief - PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more - Security - 15 Mar 2026 - | 3

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Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class - Kettle - Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC - AI + ML - 15 Mar 2026 - | 1

7 hours ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting -- Opinion -- Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis -- OSes

2 days ago

Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD - Bork!Bork!Bork! Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes - Offbeat - 13 Mar 2026 - | 14

6 hours ago

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them - Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults - Networks - 13 Mar 2026 - | 21

8 minutes ago

Data analytics help make the mighty lionesses roar

8 minutes ago

NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents -- Take your YOLO and box it up

2 hours ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting -- Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

2 days ago

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection -- Dark Dalek drama to stream this April -- Offbeat

2 hours ago

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants -- PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment. -- On-Prem

17 hours ago

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs -- Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth -- Offbeat

7 hours ago

Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid -- Biological computing is messy and gassy – It's now cloudy, too -- Science

1 day ago

Claude charts a new course with charts, of course -- Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps -- AI + ML

2 days ago

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan -- Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks

2 days ago

'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops -- An incident in Macau -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - On Call - Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?

3 hours ago

Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others -- And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date -- Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over -- Applications

2 days ago

Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg -- 35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions -- Software

2 days ago

Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge -- Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own -- AI + ML

2 days ago

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it -- Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot -- Storage

2 days ago

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 -- 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' -- Science

2 days ago

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns -- Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power -- It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' -- On-Prem

2 days ago

NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents -- exclusive -- Take your YOLO and box it up -- Security

2 days ago

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack -- Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 -- Patches

2 days ago

Four Months Into Its Comeback, Zapata Stakes Its Claim In Quantum Software

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

HPE Works Harder And Smarter To Chase Datacenter Profits

5 days ago

We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test

6 days 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

3 hours ago

BOFH - : What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge - Episode 5 - The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI - BOFH - 13 Mar 2026 - | 63

6 hours ago

AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 -- From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town -- Systems

2 days ago

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years -- Didn't say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job -- SaaS

3 days ago

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China -- Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes -- Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

2 days ago

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

Data analytics help make the mighty lionesses roar - Technology hones player decisions for women's team - Sponsored Post

1 hour ago

Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets -- Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy -- Research

3 days ago

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us -- Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer -- AI + ML

3 days ago

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data -- Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Storage news ticker - 13 March

2 days ago

Rubrik cashes in on cyber-resilience

2 days ago

Everpure tops SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI IMAGE benchmark charts

2 days ago

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information -- It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice -- AI + ML

3 days ago

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms -- Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline -- OEM delays have become patient care delays -- On-Prem

3 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

4 days ago

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

3 days 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

3 days ago

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

3 days 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

3 days 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 - | 60

12 hours 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

3 days 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

3 days ago

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

3 days 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 days 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 days ago

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

3 days 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

3 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

19 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

19 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

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

3 days 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

3 days ago

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition - Updated - Out of the Copilot and into the fire - Personal Tech - 12 Mar 2026 - | 22

2 days 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 - |

3 days 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

4 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 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

5 days ago

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

4 days 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

4 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days 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 - | 6

3 days 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

4 days 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

4 days ago