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Malware-laced OpenClaw installers get Bing AI search boost - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:50:49 GMT)Think before you downloadOpenClaw, the AI agent that can manage just about anything, is risky all by itself, but now fake installers for it are wreaking havoc. Users who searched Bing’s AI results for “OpenClaw Windows” were directed to a malicious GitHub repository that delivered information stealers and GhostSocks onto their machines.… |
Managers try AI, staff lag behind: HR urged to help - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:02:18 GMT)Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoptionIf you buy AI, employees will come and take a look, but they won't necessarily change the way they work. For that, you may have to get human resources involved.… |
Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:20:31 GMT)Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBookYou'll soon be able to get a MacBook that's cheaper than many budget PCs. Apple on Wednesday unveiled the MacBook Neo, a $599 exercise in cost cutting powered by the same silicon as an iPhone 16 Pro.… |
AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:33:55 GMT)Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more!A healthcare AI with the power to manage prescriptions is rather open to mind-altering suggestions, according to security experts. … |
AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:07:46 GMT)Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recoverAfter aerial strikes damaged AWS datacenters in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Snowflake, Red Hat, and IoT platform EMQX have told customers to open their disaster recovery playbook and move to new bit barns.… |
LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:04:30 GMT)Crooks claim 2 GB haul from AWS instance via React2Shell exploitData analytics giant LexisNexis has confirmed its Legal & Professional division suffered a data breach days after the Fulcrumsec cybercrime crew claimed responsibility for the hack.… |
Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:34:03 GMT)Jim Bridenstine says 'adjustments' to Artemis program were neededNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has won an endorsement from his predecessor Jim Bridenstine, who praised Isaacman's shake-up of the perpetually delayed Artemis program.… |
Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:37:35 GMT)London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disruptedA UK datacenter has successfully demonstrated it can reduce the amount of power drawn by AI infrastructure in response to grid events, without disrupting critical workloads.… |
Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:18:57 GMT)Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomatsRussian cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky is waving away claims that an iPhone exploit kit recently uncovered by Google was developed by the same people who were behind a group of zero-days that allegedly compromised thousands of Russian diplomats in a 2023 campaign.… |
Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:06:58 GMT)The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AIGoogle has released Android Studio Panda 2, a feature drop including an AI agent that can create apps from scratch and an AI-driven version upgrade assistant.… |
NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:08 GMT)New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mountNew datacenter capacity under construction in primary US markets declined in the second half of 2025, as community opposition increasingly disrupted planning approvals – a dynamic commercial real estate firm CBRE says is reshaping the industry.… |
Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:40:05 GMT)Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protectionMicrosoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has changed over the decades.… |
Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:06:06 GMT)Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editorGram is a new text editor written in Rust, created by removing almost all the fancy features from Zed… and it has already seemingly caused Zed Industries to change its terms of use service, according to Gram's developer.… |
UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:28:20 GMT)James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandalLabour MP James Frith has taken over the ministerial roles held by Josh Simons after he resigned over his handling of a report on journalists while running a think tank.… |
Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:44:08 GMT)Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down againAn Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.… |
Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low' - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:08:49 GMT)Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurementCapita confirmed today it won a business process outsourcing deal for multiple UK government departments for £370 million over ten years, less than 40 percent of the estimated value outlined during the tender stage.… |
Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage' - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:31:21 GMT)Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at MicrosoftMicrosoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules, a situation a source described as "carnage."… |
Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:33:28 GMT)Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and MicrosoftThe chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market.… |
One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:45:24 GMT)Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAMThe high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives.… |
European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:31:12 GMT)Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposesThe European Space Agency and the Institute of Optoelectronics at China’s Academy of Sciences both claim they’ve achieved gigabit links to satellites in geostationary orbit.… |
Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:01:55 GMT)Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safeGoogle will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems, Android, and iOS.… |
OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:17:28 GMT)The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense DepartmentOpenAI says GPT‑5.3 Instant, the latest addition to its GPT-5.3 family of models, is less inclined to moralize.… |
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:20:28 GMT)Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inferenceIt's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics.… |
Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:19:03 GMT)Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposedA developer says their company is on the hook for more than $82,000 in unauthorized charges after a stolen Google Gemini API key racked massive usage costs up in just 48 hours.… |
Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:04:37 GMT)Go outside and smell some flowersUpdated Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.… |
MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:32:53 GMT)Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in miceCan’t keep waiting on the transplant list? How about an injectable “satellite liver” instead? After an MIT research project showed early success, the idea of a mini organ that could be injected into the body to take over for a failing liver doesn’t sound so far-fetched.… |
Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:59:17 GMT)AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal detailsYour latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.… |
Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:06:17 GMT)No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim AppleRAM shortages and faster chips have a big impact on Apple's next-gen laptops. On Tuesday, the iGiant unveiled its M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and M5 Airs alongside steep price hikes across the lineup.… |
Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:28:13 GMT)After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ labelA group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate whether its agencies - including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - illegally purchased Americans' location data without first obtaining warrants.… |
Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:23:51 GMT)No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflictIn what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. … |
Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:59:08 GMT)The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetricsAccenture is going to get a closer look into how web traffic is moving...or not moving. The company has announced plans to buy Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis as part of a package deal with other software for $1.2 billion.… |
BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13 - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:36:03 GMT)Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thingBunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon.… |
Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:25:18 GMT)Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddiesContrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids' game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting busted.… |
Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:41:09 GMT)Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrailsA group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it's even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles to bake supply chain controls and cyber safeguards into the next generation of mobile networks.… |
CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:22:15 GMT)Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these thingsAI adoption is moving too rapidly say senior tech leaders, as the pressure to deploy clashes with risk management and compliance concerns.… |
AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:05:08 GMT)AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE marketThe Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Europe as part of a "strategic investment" from the cloud giant.… |
Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:01:09 GMT)AI browsing agent left local files open for the takingIf you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft by sending your victim a calendar event.… |
Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:14:37 GMT)Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGSAs the last Accenture employee clocked off from supporting the Bank of England's £431 million Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was assured it would no longer depend on the global consultancy.… |
Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:47:26 GMT)Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five yearsA Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels and selling them in bulk.… |
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:39:55 GMT)Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKUMicrosoft is reportedly planning to license AI agents like employees – and charge accordingly.… |
Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:39:09 GMT)High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI featureSecurity boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Google Chrome that allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they were never meant to have.… |
Cybercriminals swipe 15.8M medical records from French doctors ministry - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:00:07 GMT)Third-party software supplier breached leading to leak of notesAround 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France's health ministry.… |
Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:15:16 GMT)From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITAVodafone has signed a deal with Amazon Leo to use its satellites as a backhaul connection for cellular base stations in remote areas of Europe and Africa, saving it from having to cable them up to its core network.… |
Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:30:15 GMT)Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chainsEurope's EV battery cost gap with China – currently around 90 percent – could shrink to roughly 30 percent by 2030 if Brussels is willing to pay what campaigners call a "sovereignty premium."… |
Gamers furious as indie studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:24:19 GMT)Slow disclosure and odd reassurance that exposing names and contact details won't be a problem isn't going down wellGamers are ready to unleash their mightiest virtual weapons and point them at independent games studio Cloud Imperium, after it sat on news of a data breach for weeks and then announced it without fanfare.… |
Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:25:52 GMT)Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write codeAnthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.… |
Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:49:25 GMT)Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matterAs the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they have a new option: China’s Huawei.… |
Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:33:15 GMT)Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokensMicrosoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices.… |
Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:33:43 GMT)Coherent, Lumentum each walk away with $2B in cash and a multi-billion purchase commitmentNvidia is dipping into its war chest once again this week, investing $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum to lock in supply of the vendors' respective silicon photonics technologies.… |
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:55:49 GMT)Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worstThe war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts.… |
