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Amazon Web Services (AWS) New Horizon in Cloud Computing (X) Resources Resources Whitepapers Webinars & Events Newsletters BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge Episode 5 The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot What to expect at GTC 2026, aka the Burning Man of AI From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting Opinion Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo’s biggest ever IaaS deal; and more AI + ML16 Mar 2026 | 1 Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters Infosec In Brief PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more Security15 Mar 2026 | 1 Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class Kettle Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC AI + ML15 Mar 2026 | 1 Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters Most don't think they are good for the environment. On-Prem15 Mar 2026 | 14 Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth Offbeat15 Mar 2026 | 71 Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too Science14 Mar 2026 | 15 Claude charts a new course with charts, of course Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps AI + ML13 Mar 2026 | 6 GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free AI + ML13 Mar 2026 | 40 AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it A 'web of litigation' Networks13 Mar 2026 | 22 'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops An incident in Macau Offbeat13 Mar 2026 | 54 Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks Cyber-crime13 Mar 2026 | 4 After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over Applications13 Mar 2026 | 20 AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours David and Goliath…but with AI agents Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys Public Sector13 Mar 2026 | 20 Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg 35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions Software13 Mar 2026 | 13 Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own AI + ML13 Mar 2026 | 18 RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Storage13 Mar 2026 | 50 NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' Science13 Mar 2026 | 16 Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date Cyber-crime13 Mar 2026 | 5 Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting Opinion Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis OSes13 Mar 2026 | 168 Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' On-Prem13 Mar 2026 | 34 NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents exclusive Take your YOLO and box it up Security13 Mar 2026 | 2 Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 Patches13 Mar 2026 | 8 Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD Bork!Bork!Bork! Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes Offbeat13 Mar 2026 | 14 Four Months Into Its Comeback, Zapata Stakes Its Claim In Quantum Software Eridu Cuts To The AI Networking Chase With High Radix Switch System HPE Works Harder And Smarter To Chase Datacenter Profits We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought Kettle Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults Networks13 Mar 2026 | 20 BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge Episode 5 The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI BOFH13 Mar 2026 | 63 Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds On Call Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On-Prem13 Mar 2026 | 109 AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town Systems13 Mar 2026 | 15 Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job SaaS13 Mar 2026 | 19 Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change Personal Tech13 Mar 2026 | 8 Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury Public Sector13 Mar 2026 | 22 Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns Building the UK’s next generation of cyber talent Reflecting on the relaunch of the UK Cyber Team and introducing the next phase of leadership Partner Content Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy Research12 Mar 2026 | 5 Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer AI + ML12 Mar 2026 | 7 District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered Public Sector12 Mar 2026 | 62 Storage news ticker - 13 March Rubrik cashes in on cyber-resilience Everpure tops SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI IMAGE benchmark charts Solidigm strikes out in new AI computer vision direction Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice AI + ML12 Mar 2026 | 16 White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda Offbeat12 Mar 2026 | 44 Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline OEM delays have become patient care delays On-Prem12 Mar 2026 | 22 Huawei outlines practical route to “industrial intelligence” at MWC 2026 New showcases and partner solutions aim to help organizations move AI from pilots to production Sponsored Post Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries Cyber-crime12 Mar 2026 | 4 Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more AI + ML12 Mar 2026 | 6 Musk makes the Macrohard joke again The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies' AI + ML12 Mar 2026 | 33 Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan AI + ML12 Mar 2026 | 39 Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 Obit Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Software12 Mar 2026 | 60 NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury Science12 Mar 2026 | 3 CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures Cyber-crime12 Mar 2026 | 1 Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' Networks12 Mar 2026 | 3 Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract Databases12 Mar 2026 | 18 Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions Updated Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own Applications12 Mar 2026 | 26 Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator Bork!Bork!Bork! All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going Offbeat12 Mar 2026 | 32 Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials Science12 Mar 2026 | 42 SPONSORED FEATURES Why flexibility will define the future of functionality Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications. So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook On-Prem12 Mar 2026 | 51 Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs Public Sector12 Mar 2026 | 50 Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition Updated Out of the Copilot and into the fire Personal Tech12 Mar 2026 | 22 Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop Systems12 Mar 2026 | Popular AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours David and Goliath…but with AI agents Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting Opinion Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 Obit Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns This is not satire, but we wish it was Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack Could steal sensitive personal and financial data District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered MORESTORIES China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it Security12 Mar 2026 | 1 Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers SaaS11 Mar 2026 | 23 Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appeal AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 22 How AI is boosting gender equality in high-performance racing A virtual Driver Agent is leveling the odds for female motorsport drivers Sponsored Post Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted Security11 Mar 2026 | 41 Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm Meanwhile, Verifone says 'no evidence' to support the digital intruders' claims Cyber-crime11 Mar 2026 | 6 Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that? AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 36 Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers 150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested Cyber-crime11 Mar 2026 | 7 NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans Inspector general flags Starship risks and gaps in testing Offbeat11 Mar 2026 | 25 DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only OSes11 Mar 2026 | 66 ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine Security11 Mar 2026 | 16 Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns This is not satire, but we wish it was Offbeat11 Mar 2026 | 199 Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh Let them eat cores Personal Tech11 Mar 2026 | 25 Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system Exclusive Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Systems11 Mar 2026 | 6 Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables On-Prem11 Mar 2026 | 2 Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 24 MORE STORIES The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT About Us Contact us Advertise with us Who we are Our Websites The Next Platform DevClass Blocks and Files Your Privacy Cookies Policy Privacy Policy Ts & Cs Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2026
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