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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 EDR 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.… |
ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:30:27 GMT)And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacksShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.… |
Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:08:19 GMT)Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting computeAmazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.… |
China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:49:06 GMT)Not a US flag in sightResearchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.… |
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:26:57 GMT)Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify thingsopinion A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.… |
'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:13:09 GMT)Three agents is about all we can handleAs AI adoption in the workplace accelerates, many people find themselves in a position where babysitting bots and agents is a significant part of their day. Those people are feeling a bit like AI has fried their brains. … |
Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:28:37 GMT)E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happyMicrosoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).… |
EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:02:48 GMT)An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addressesExclusive ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.… |
MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:45:51 GMT)But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open sourceAfter a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.… |
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:19:08 GMT)Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and exportMarkdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.… |
Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:40:22 GMT)Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan DeckerFormer British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.… |
Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:08:28 GMT)Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the countryDutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers - 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face public shaming.… |
Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:40:53 GMT)Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accountsRussian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.… |
NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:08:43 GMT)Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on landerNASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.… |
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:58:46 GMT)This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at riskAI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.… |
Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:14:52 GMT)UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.… |
Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:30:07 GMT)Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is lateThe British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.… |
UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:15:14 GMT)Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workersOpinion On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.… |
Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeksBritain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.… |
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:30:07 GMT)Ignorance really was the way to achieve blissWho, Me? Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.… |
Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:12:23 GMT)Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crackWorld War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.… |
