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Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:27:13 GMT)Forget the metaverseMeta has begun laying off employees as it focuses more of its cash on building out datacenters, training its own large language models, and recruiting talent for AI.… |
Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:47:11 GMT)Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges cautionOracle says it's building a suite of AI agents binto its cloud-based enterprise applications, claiming they can make and execute decisions autonmomously within business processes. But analysts are urging caution given unresolved questions around data integration and liability.… |
Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:17:45 GMT)Plus one actual physicistDonald Trump has named the first members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), largely comprising Trump allies in the tech industry and one actual scientist.… |
OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:36:56 GMT)AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape?OpenAI on Wednesday announced the death of its controversial Sora video creation tool, just two days after publishing a guide on how to use it well.… |
Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:19:56 GMT)In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamersFirefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome.… |
Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:35:12 GMT)Effort includes permitting and planningMicrosoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects.… |
NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:11:55 GMT)Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?Opinion NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.… |
JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:29:10 GMT)Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areasDev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature.… |
Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:00:07 GMT)Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgradesDell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves - but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals.… |
Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:30:06 GMT)I'll just clear up that up, shall I?Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore – what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.… |
HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:18:46 GMT)Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiationThe UK's tax collection agency has awarded Amazon Web Services – the only remaining bidder – a contract worth nearly £500 million to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and host them for up to a decade.… |
Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:41:35 GMT)Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reachSamsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through.… |
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:00:07 GMT)A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their codeOpinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?… |
YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:15:14 GMT)BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdownCould Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.… |
Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:30:09 GMT)AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it?The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.… |
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:29:12 GMT)Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and GoogleEnd-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.… |
Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:52:10 GMT)Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy adsApple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.… |
Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:52:48 GMT)Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fareAlibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.… |
HP's AI fly on the wall can record your in-person meetings to summarize later - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:06:36 GMT)HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room.You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart. Also, get ready for your boss to start recording in-person meetings.… |
AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:21:04 GMT)Breaking free of its IP licensing shacklesArm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.… |
EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:00:08 GMT)Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained governmentinterview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.… |
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:31:09 GMT)Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projectsRSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.… |
Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:02:12 GMT)They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylusAn undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.… |
LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:11:01 GMT)Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipelineTwo versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.… |
AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:32:06 GMT)Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and payAI isn't killing jobs wholesale – it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time.… |
Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:56:12 GMT)Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shiftThe post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.… |
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:29:06 GMT)Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrowsAfter weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.… |
Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:00:13 GMT)Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole timeArm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.… |
Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:38:43 GMT)NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparentlyNASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. … |
Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:07 GMT)The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economicsDatadog is close to releasing an updated AI model that it thinks will help it avoid the so-called SaaSpocalypse – customers using AI to build their own tools.… |
HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:27:07 GMT)Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider NaviaAlmost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.… |
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:05:49 GMT)Microslop? Sorry, we meant MicrosoftMicrosoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces. Or top up the bucket of slop, depending on your perspective.… |
Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:19:36 GMT)Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're StarlinkCiting national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.… |
Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:52:13 GMT)A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong?Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.… |
Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:32:11 GMT)Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millionsA Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.… |
Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:07 GMT)Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMsAntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it's able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs – and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.… |
SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:15:11 GMT)New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind targetSAP has begun to shift focus away from its failure to hit legacy software and cloud migration targets and onto the latest so-called "innovation" elements of its portfolio, such as AI.… |
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:30:18 GMT)Sorry seems to be the hardest word at MicrosoftOpinion Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?… |
EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:45:15 GMT)Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulationEurope's broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are fast becoming the next Big Tech gatekeepers, with little sign of Brussels stepping in.… |
Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:35:09 GMT)Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trappedHalf of VMware users plan to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneer’s products by 2028, according to a survey by independent analyst firm Virtified.… |
Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’ - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:45:57 GMT)‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.… |
Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:20:29 GMT)Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for factsMany people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.… |
Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:50:21 GMT)'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans missRSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.… |
Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:56:05 GMT)Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairsRSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.… |
Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:45:24 GMT)Customers are 'excited' says one solution providerSnowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.… |
Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:42:11 GMT)Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this yearStrengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. … |
If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:53:19 GMT)Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcomeImagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of herself instead. With a digital twin, even your company's CEO - the one who spends all his time on the corporate jet - could make an appearance at your powwow about the break room coffee machine. But would you want them there?… |
AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:50:06 GMT)Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSACRSAC 2026 There's a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity.… |
SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:29:23 GMT)10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanupSoftbank's SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus, adding extra generation facilities and power infrastructure alongside it.… |
Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:22:17 GMT)Expendable military drones are so 2025The US Army just took receipt of what may be the coolest unmanned drone ever flown by the military: A full-sized Black Hawk helicopter. … |
