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Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:21:30 GMT)150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrestedNot every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.… |
NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:03:15 GMT)Inspector general flags Starship risks and gaps in testingThe NASA Office of Inspector General has published a report on the agency's management of the lunar Human Landing System (HLS) contracts, highlighting the risks and arguments behind the scenes.… |
DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:37:45 GMT)Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries onlyDR-DOS is back, and there is already a test version you can download. But as of yet, it's not finished, not FOSS – and not based on the original code.… |
ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:06:01 GMT)Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fineThe UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.… |
Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:38:04 GMT)This is not satire, but we wish it wasThe Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.… |
Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:02:38 GMT)Let them eat coresIntel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range.… |
Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:01:20 GMT)Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server.Exclusive If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.… |
Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:16 GMT)Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggablesPhotonics startup Lightmatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.… |
Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:38:57 GMT)Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against itMicrosoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.… |
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:31:39 GMT)Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probeA Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.… |
Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:12:08 GMT)17-year-old allegedly withdrew large sums of cash from ATMsDutch police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who detectives suspect was responsible for 16 bank card frauds across the Netherlands.… |
Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:08:05 GMT)Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spentBroadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.… |
Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:43:39 GMT)Microsoft insists rebootless updates are 'the quickest way to get secure'From the department of "what could possibly go wrong?" comes news that Windows Autopatch is enabling hotpatch security updates by default.… |
EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:29:21 GMT)Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scamsAnalysis One of the European Union's top legal advisors is trying to change how banks treat cybercrime victims – meaning they could enjoy greater financial protections sooner than expected.… |
Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:00:08 GMT)AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budgetFeature Hyperscale computing was built on a foundation of certainty. For years, 12V and 48V rack architectures – implemented at a steady 50–54 VDC (Volts of Direct Current) - ruled the datacenter floor, engineered to perfection for power densities of 10–15 kW per rack. These systems were finely tuned machines, optimized around the predictable, steady-state demands of general-purpose CPUs and storage servers. The infrastructure was stable. The math was settled.… |
Watchdog clears £142M Post Office subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:15:33 GMT)CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mountThe UK's competition regulator has given a conditional thumbs-up to a request for £141.8 million in subsidies to the Post Office – a publicly owned company – to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal in the coming year and a tax liability.… |
Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:30:14 GMT)Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attachedThe UK government has refused to estimate the cost of its digital identity system, saying this depends on what it decides after a consultation exercise launched yesterday.… |
AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:28:13 GMT)Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might notOpinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.… |
Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:45:03 GMT)Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the jobAtlassian has admitted that the tools it developed to move Jira users into the cloud were actually slower than older code that did the same job, and that its efforts to speed things up also had speed problems.… |
Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:24:49 GMT)Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the booksOracle says AI code generation tools have become so efficient, and it is so good at using them, that it will dodge the SaaSpocalypse and watch smaller rivals suffer.… |
Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:08:30 GMT)Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuelThe US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.… |
AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:31:29 GMT)Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suiteThree more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”… |
Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:35:16 GMT)Could steal sensitive personal and financial dataAfter a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.… |
Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:44:45 GMT)E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidentsAmazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.… |
AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:21:14 GMT)Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now?The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.… |
Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:47 GMT)Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, tooIranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations - not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers.… |
AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:07:10 GMT)Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030Public water supplies in America will need billions invested to meet the peak requirements of datacenters during the hottest periods of the year, even if their overall annual consumption is relatively modest.… |
JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:38:30 GMT)Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for themJetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.… |
Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:29:14 GMT)Rapid7 says crims broke into more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign pageCyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site of a US Senate candidate, turning them into launchpads for a global infostealer operation.… |
Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:19:24 GMT)FAA launches pilot projects starting this summerThe skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations expected to begin by summer 2026.… |
Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:22:42 GMT)Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III nearSpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.… |
Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:43:36 GMT)Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescalesOracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.… |
Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:23:11 GMT)Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructureChromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.… |
Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:08:42 GMT)Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering themAs more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.… |
Fake job applications pack malware that kills endpoint detection before stealing data - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:31:11 GMT)Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defensesA Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.… |
Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:28:18 GMT)Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detectionMicrosoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.… |
Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:16:28 GMT)Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 peopleA voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.… |
Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:09:31 GMT)Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of usOpinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.… |
Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12 - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:41:28 GMT)Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officialsPolish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.… |
Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:00:15 GMT)Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracksA retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.… |
Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:05:09 GMT)Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up againJetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a ground stop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."… |
Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:30:14 GMT)Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creatorsBritain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.… |
Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:31:07 GMT)As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstreamThe Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.… |
SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:27:36 GMT)Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signalsThe SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.… |
HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:57:12 GMT)With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its marginsHPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.… |
Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:25:12 GMT)As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.… |
Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:06:33 GMT)First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issuesAnthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.… |
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:22:07 GMT)David and Goliath…but with AI agentsResearchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.… |
Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:19:29 GMT)Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that awayAngry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. … |
Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:26:41 GMT)Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasksMicrosoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.… |
