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Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:08:33 GMT)Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MWOhio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.… |
Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:06:57 GMT)Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creatingMicrosoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.… |
Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:51:16 GMT)What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define itIf a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. … |
Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:15:10 GMT)Good luck with thatThe latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.… |
Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:01:22 GMT)Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffleMicrosoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial.… |
North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:57:07 GMT)Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaboratorsResearchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.… |
AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state' - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:53:14 GMT)Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and reviewQCon London AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week.… |
Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:38:14 GMT)Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for nowMicrosoft has paused plans to force the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on users, halting automatic installations for an unspecified period.… |
Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:34:15 GMT)No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capabilityThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.… |
IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:26:59 GMT)Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reportingNot all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.… |
Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:02:53 GMT)Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainableSamsung is killing the Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market.… |
It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:33:19 GMT)Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 landsThe 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers that don't use binary.… |
Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing' - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:30:09 GMT)24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurementExecs from 24 European cloud and digital service providers are urging the European Commission to legislate for real tech sovereignty – not the illusion of it – in the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA).… |
Iran's cyberattack against med tech firm is 'just the beginning' - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:32:08 GMT)Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack'Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.… |
Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:59:27 GMT)Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own siliconAlibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.… |
Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:31:05 GMT)Rozum orchestrates multiple flaky models and drives them to reasonable conclusionsTech companies have in recent years developed a reputation for being rapacious rent-seekers, but can also be unwittingly generous because their penchant to prioritize popularity over quality leaves room for others to sell improvements or repairs.… |
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:05:45 GMT)Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rollingHalf a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.… |
Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:49:49 GMT)In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.… |
Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:34:08 GMT)Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUsGTC Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.… |
World<s>Coin</s>'s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:26:08 GMT)Sell your soul to the orbSam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.… |
AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:15:08 GMT)Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chartEarlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as AWS is actively encouraging them to do — need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later.… |
Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a <i>budget bière</i> - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:53:26 GMT)Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spotsYour AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language.… |
Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:11:44 GMT)The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needsgtc Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.… |
HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:22:15 GMT)Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'GTC HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.… |
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:18:38 GMT)State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penaltiesThe Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.… |
Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:58:05 GMT)Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ballThe rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.… |
Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:11 GMT)Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge casesJavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.… |
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:09:17 GMT)Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market.… |
Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:27:08 GMT)Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2.… |
Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:09 GMT)Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside informationIran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.… |
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:06:06 GMT)Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to changeLinux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.… |
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:15:07 GMT)SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere elseFeature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.… |
In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:28:12 GMT)A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a dayFor decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.… |
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:11 GMT)MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen insteadBritain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them.… |
Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:29:16 GMT)Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of lifeScientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.… |
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:37:40 GMT)Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial jobGartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.… |
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:37:16 GMT)AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutesAustralia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.… |
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:38:54 GMT)Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the messinterview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.… |
Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066 - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:07:20 GMT)'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO BenioffHere today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.… |
Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:35:05 GMT)Latest generation of AI image enhancer brings characters to lifeGTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes, cling-film-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they've stepped out of a movie screen – and we're not talking about a Pixar movie either.… |
Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:15:28 GMT)'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEOgtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. … |
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:04:08 GMT)Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're toldRobotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.… |
Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:35:32 GMT)The cubicals of the agentic AI age are coresGTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.… |
Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:30:56 GMT)GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than everGTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. … |
Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:40:30 GMT)Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts'Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.… |
Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:23:13 GMT)Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projectsVite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.… |
Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:50:09 GMT)Robotron: 2084 is the original robot uprising gameA former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.… |
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:40:06 GMT)Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitableAI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.… |
Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:35:23 GMT)Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us aboutSan Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… |
Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:19:33 GMT)F is for Free, FSF, and fat chanceUpdated The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.… |
