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AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before

Opinion Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might not

AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 7

Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse

Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books

SaaS11 Mar 2026 |

AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure

Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite

AI + ML10 Mar 2026 | 5

Huawei outlines practical route to “industrial intelligence” at MWC 2026

Sponsored Post New showcases and partner solutions aim to help organizations move AI from pilots to production

Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents

AI + ML10 Mar 2026 | 8

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now?

AI + ML10 Mar 2026 | 9

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days

Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030

Systems10 Mar 2026 | 6

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet

Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them

AI + ML10 Mar 2026 | 4

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales

Databases10 Mar 2026 | 10

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments

Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure

Personal Tech10 Mar 2026 | 24

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them

OSes10 Mar 2026 | 60

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones

Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection

Personal Tech10 Mar 2026 | 28

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators

AI + ML10 Mar 2026 | 20

Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream

Virtualization10 Mar 2026 | 4

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

Public Sector10 Mar 2026 | 29

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

Devops09 Mar 2026 | 5

Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away

AI + ML09 Mar 2026 | 7

Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks

AI + ML09 Mar 2026 | 4

'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

Three agents is about all we can handle

AI + ML09 Mar 2026 | 18

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

Applications09 Mar 2026 | 45

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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

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

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source

ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country

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How AI is boosting gender equality in high-performance racing

A virtual Driver Agent is leveling the odds for female motorsport drivers

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source

Databases09 Mar 2026 | 9

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export

Applications09 Mar 2026 | 47

Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

On-Prem09 Mar 2026 | 8

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

AI + ML09 Mar 2026 | 45

UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone

Opinion Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers

Databases09 Mar 2026 | 9

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

interview Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg

Security08 Mar 2026 | 9

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

feature Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits

Systems07 Mar 2026 | 18

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'

AI + ML07 Mar 2026 | 51

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia

Systems07 Mar 2026 | 27

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact

It's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine

AI + ML07 Mar 2026 | 16

Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say

US unemployment ticked up to 4.4%

AI + ML06 Mar 2026 | 13

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits

Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components

AI + ML06 Mar 2026 | 32

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS

OSes06 Mar 2026 | 202

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation

Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'

AI + ML06 Mar 2026 | 37

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad

Systems06 Mar 2026 | 17

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal

Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves

Cyber-crime06 Mar 2026 | 4

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries

House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth

AI + ML06 Mar 2026 | 10

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up

SaaS06 Mar 2026 | 61

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals

FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffs

Security06 Mar 2026 | 6

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October

Released from the curse of the update bork fairy

OSes06 Mar 2026 | 10

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding

Updated It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says

Databases06 Mar 2026 | 14

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

Opinion OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived

AI + ML06 Mar 2026 | 29

Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites

‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone

Software06 Mar 2026 | 28

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

Software06 Mar 2026 | 104

Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears

It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.

SaaS05 Mar 2026 | 7

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway?

AI + ML05 Mar 2026 | 8

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online

Software05 Mar 2026 | 18

npmx package browser released as alpha to fix pain of using npmjs

Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface

Software05 Mar 2026 | 3

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in

AI + ML05 Mar 2026 | 78

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators

Software05 Mar 2026 | 59

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help

AI + ML05 Mar 2026 | 47

Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon

Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business

Systems05 Mar 2026 | 6

Malware-laced OpenClaw installers get Bing AI search boost

Think before you download

Cyber-crime04 Mar 2026 | 6

HR may have to cajole and soothe reluctant employees to get them to use AI

Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption

AI + ML04 Mar 2026 | 42

AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice

Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more!

AI + ML04 Mar 2026 | 18

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command

London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted

On-Prem04 Mar 2026 | 3

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI

AI + ML04 Mar 2026 | 6

NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout

New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount

On-Prem04 Mar 2026 | 10

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor

Software04 Mar 2026 | 30

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal

Public Sector04 Mar 2026 | 22

Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement

Databases04 Mar 2026 | 28

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

Updated Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

Networks04 Mar 2026 | 109

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM

Systems04 Mar 2026 | 6

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe

Software04 Mar 2026 | 18

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department

AI + ML04 Mar 2026 | 10

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details

AI + ML03 Mar 2026 | 13

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing

OSes03 Mar 2026 | 14

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists

Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails

Networks03 Mar 2026 | 20

CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage

Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things

AI + ML03 Mar 2026 | 8

AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market

Devops03 Mar 2026 | 12

Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite

AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking

Research03 Mar 2026 | 4

Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture

Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS

Public Sector03 Mar 2026 | 21

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years

Software03 Mar 2026 | 74

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace

Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU

AI + ML03 Mar 2026 | 49

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions

High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature

Security03 Mar 2026 | 4

Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours

Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code

SaaS03 Mar 2026 | 7

Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world

Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter

On-Prem03 Mar 2026 | 5

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027

OSes02 Mar 2026 | 46

Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations

Devops02 Mar 2026 | 14

Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak

Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading isn't allowed

OSes02 Mar 2026 | 39

SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata

A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids

Databases02 Mar 2026 | 1

Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell

More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016

OSes02 Mar 2026 | 10

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

Software02 Mar 2026 | 31

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go

Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora

Applications02 Mar 2026 | 58

OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

AI + ML02 Mar 2026 | 35

AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

Asia In brief PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!

Off-Prem01 Mar 2026 | 8

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

Interview A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

AI + ML01 Mar 2026 | 21

SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

Opinion Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle

SaaS01 Mar 2026 | 20

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

Opinion Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

Databases28 Feb 2026 | 96

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

updated Without a single 'You're Fired' joke

Public Sector27 Feb 2026 | 140

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals

AI + ML27 Feb 2026 | 14

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims

Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?

Applications27 Feb 2026 | 9

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year

Systems27 Feb 2026 | 51

Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award

French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules

Public Sector27 Feb 2026 | 39

Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul

Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA

Databases27 Feb 2026 | 1

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

On Call 'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'

On-Prem27 Feb 2026 | 94

NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs

Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun

Off-Prem27 Feb 2026 | 36

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War

Public Sector27 Feb 2026 | 54

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death

AI + ML27 Feb 2026 | 39

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