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Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:39 GMT)Better than seismometers?Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.… |
GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:54:01 GMT)Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.… |
FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:43:05 GMT)Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionableIt's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data of Americans, potentially in violation of the Constitution. Here we go again.… |
Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:20 GMT)Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using IntuneThe US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.… |
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:59:30 GMT)Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefitsYou'll use AI and like it too - if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made clear there is no room at the corporation for AI skeptics.… |
UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:12 GMT)Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data useThe UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes by default.… |
Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:31:24 GMT)One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdogThe UK's competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google's strategic market status (SMS) covering search and search advertising services - and the tech biz is offering some concessions.… |
Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:22:57 GMT)It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/OQCon London A member of Anthropic's AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at finding issues but still makes a poor substitute for a site reliability engineer (SRE), constantly mistaking correlation with causation.… |
Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:15:11 GMT)New toggle strips away browser chrome if you wantBrowser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.… |
Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:05:31 GMT)Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly priceBritain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascertain if it breaks consumer law.… |
Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:00:14 GMT)Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notificationComplaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming.… |
SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind targetFive years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target by about €2 billion, The Register can reveal.… |
GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answersMore powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatbot more accurate but are also slowing it down, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS).… |
Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:30:10 GMT)From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everythingOpinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clankers? A bot-licker, a prompt-fondler, a ChatNPC?… |
Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:54:29 GMT)Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvasThe term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production. Google’s now proudly adapted the term to describe the workings of its Stitch design tool.… |
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:39:35 GMT)Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarterAutonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and robots will need similar quantities, leading memory-maker Micron Technology to predict it has a long and happy future ahead of it.… |
Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:47:43 GMT)Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise partyTwo more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains.… |
Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:28:08 GMT)Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth?Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.… |
Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:05:31 GMT)Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that?Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.… |
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:39:04 GMT)Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a monthA new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.… |
Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:43:34 GMT)Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomesSometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental health issues.… |
ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:43:11 GMT)The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break itOne of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect.… |
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:14:06 GMT)Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to sayGTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.… |
Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:44:39 GMT)PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor saysMicrosoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.… |
Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:40:31 GMT)Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposedRansomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.… |
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.… |
