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Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 -- Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages -- AI + ML

9 minutes ago

They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead -- Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks -- Security

3 hours ago

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks -- ESET says factory outages, lost revenue, and supply chain disruption are becoming routine -- Security

1 day ago

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system -- If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code -- Devops

1 day ago

Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns -- How to avoid social engineering attacks? Employee training tops the list -- Research

2 days ago

Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it - Interview - Cores it's got what agents crave - Systems - 31 Mar 2026 - | 4

19 hours ago

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines - Updated - Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios - CSO - 31 Mar 2026 - | 4

1 day ago

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year -- Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math

3 hours ago

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed -- Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen

3 hours ago

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover -- Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust

6 hours ago

'Uncle Larry's biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree -- WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed

3 hours ago

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images -- About that partnership... -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks -- Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems -- Networks

3 hours ago

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important -- Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI -- Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue's access to power-efficient compute -- Systems

4 hours ago

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash -- Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' -- Applications

4 hours ago

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' -- In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft -- Applications

5 hours ago

Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle -- The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services -- SaaS

5 hours ago

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript -- Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer -- Devops

6 hours ago

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed -- Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen -- OSes

7 hours ago

Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons -- Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows

6 hours ago

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer -- We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control' -- Networks

9 hours ago

Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo -- And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned -- Science

10 hours ago

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support -- And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis -- OSes

12 hours ago

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom - Pwned - Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable - Security - 02 Apr 2026 - | 51

50 minutes ago

AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack -- First public downstream victim, but won't be the last -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell -- Chocolate Factory's compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

'Uncle Larry's biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree -- WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed -- PaaS + IaaS

23 hours ago

Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age -- AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands - Updated - A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands - AI + ML - 01 Apr 2026 - | 10

7 hours ago

Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient - interview - Plus: how to train your - human - AI - Security - 01 Apr 2026 - | 4

50 minutes ago

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard -- Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027 -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Nvidia Software Pushes MLPerf Inference Benchmarks To New Highs

4 hours ago

Broadcom Makes Its Pitch To Run Kubernetes On VMware VCF

6 hours ago

The $2 Billion Nvidia Deal With Marvell Is About A Lot More Than NVLink Fusion

1 day ago

Classiq Says Quantum Is On Its Way, But Patience Is Needed

2 days ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference - Who, Me? Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences

3 hours ago

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year -- Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math -- Science

1 day ago

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover -- Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust -- Software

1 day ago

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K -- We could tell you no for free -- Public Sector

1 day ago

France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M -- Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder -- HPC

1 day ago

Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes -- Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash -- Science

1 day ago

One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it -- Poll finds 15% happy to take orders from a bot even as most question its output and fear job losses -- AI + ML

1 day ago

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds -- Researchers say localized warming can extend well past site edges, raising concerns about community impact -- Systems

1 day ago

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover

7 hours ago

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

1 day ago

Contracts are in C++26 despite disquiet over their value

1 day ago

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

6 days ago

EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG: Reclaiming control of the enterprise data warehouse - Proprietary warehouses delivered scale — but at the cost of control, predictable pricing, and real flexibility. Enterprises are doing the math. Partner Content

2 days ago

We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke -- Hot DRAM! Who is going to drop nearly $400 on an underpowered Linux computer? -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses -- Congratulations, XxXh4xx0r420xXx, you can now use that account in your professional life, too -- Applications

2 days ago

Iran targets M365 accounts with password-spraying attacks -- Researchers say some targets correlate with cities hit by Iranian missile strikes -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset - Here's how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze - Partner Content

3 days ago

Kioxia killing off old NAND chippery

4 hours ago

Geyser Data, Spectra Logic bring tape-as-a-service archive to London

7 hours ago

Everpure says it's outpacing rivals in revenue, capacity growth

7 hours ago

Remote NetApp array over photonic link nears local access speed

12 hours ago

Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security -- Big Red declines comment as reports point to layoffs in the thousands -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident -- Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline? -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid - Exclusive - Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills - OSes - 31 Mar 2026 - | 79

4 hours ago

UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' -- No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind -- Science

2 days ago

Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds -- Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology -- Science

2 days ago

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp -- The 13-year sales vet closed two deals worth $27 million, but ServiceNow has "nullified" his compensation saying he "overachieved" his quota. -- SaaS

2 days ago

Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue -- Weren't these supposed to be 'atypical'? -- OSes

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China -- Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive -- Yep, you read that right. And there's no official Linux client from Google -- OSes

2 days ago

Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice -- 'Converting AI capability into sustainable, auditable revenue remains a challenge' says PwC survey -- Software

2 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

6 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean -- Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value -- Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable -- Devops

2 days ago

Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea -- Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI's memory use, but don't assume that means less demand for DRAM -- Systems

2 days ago

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia's kids social media ban -- Regulator 'moving into an enforcement stance' and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll -- Legal

2 days ago

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash - Updated - Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager - AI + ML - 30 Mar 2026 - | 49

1 day ago

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS -- Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS -- Security

2 days ago

Explainer: Self-driving networks - Here's how your next network will look after itself - The Register Explainer

3 days ago

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems -- Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 -- Systems

2 days ago

Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach - infosec in brief - Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and more - Cyber-crime - 30 Mar 2026 - | 2

2 days ago

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines -- But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut -- Networks

3 days ago

Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby -- Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years -- Science

3 days ago

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev -- Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person -- Applications

3 days ago

SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition -- Merger positioned to boost appeal of ERP giant's Business Data Cloud -- Databases

3 days ago

Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat - Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes - Patches - 30 Mar 2026 - |

3 days ago

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion -- Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO -- Systems

3 days ago

Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins -- Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS -- Databases

3 days ago

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures -- KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woes -- OSes

3 days ago

Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs -- Torso on a trolley tries its hands in warehouse role -- AI + ML

3 days ago

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else -- Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breach -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago