Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0 Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
Companies flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 5
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features Applications21 Mar 2025 | 6
Accenture: DOGE's Federal procurement review is hurting our sales Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 18
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry EXCLUSIVE A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' Applications21 Mar 2025 | 11
Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism' Legal21 Mar 2025 | 61
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern Networks21 Mar 2025 | 15
BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? Episode 6 Schrödinger's firmware and the refreshing power cycle BOFH21 Mar 2025 | 60
Weeks with a BBC Micro? Good enough to fix a mainframe, apparently On Call With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 87
AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 6
Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims Infosec newsbytes Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied Research21 Mar 2025 | 7
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 181
Maximizing ROI with integrated SDN Why SDN should be front of mind for IT teams evaluating VMware alternatives Partner Content
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPUs chart course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks CTO Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data CTO Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs Developer Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it AI There goes AMD's capacity advantage
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training FYI One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 32
Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 13
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 19
Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up So much for that vacation Public Sector20 Mar 2025 | 39
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 42
Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist Palming off the blame using an ‘unknown’ best practice didn’t go down well either Patches20 Mar 2025 | 7
Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster Personal Tech20 Mar 2025 | 113
Big Red, Microsoft roll out Azure database services for more mainstream Oracle users Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud Databases20 Mar 2025 | 1
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0 Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt Software20 Mar 2025 | 130
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Science20 Mar 2025 | 36
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty Systems20 Mar 2025 | 10
Microsoft previews new XML format for Visual Studio solutions – but replacing a longstanding format is a messy business
Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company’s AI memory and storage portfolio Sponsored Interview
Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation Security20 Mar 2025 | 9
The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK's NCSC Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade Security20 Mar 2025 | 21
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update Testing? We've heard of it Applications20 Mar 2025 | 47
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip CXO Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs OSes20 Mar 2025 | 7
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' Networks20 Mar 2025 | 23
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts Databases20 Mar 2025 | 11
Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month OSes20 Mar 2025 | 34
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has Science20 Mar 2025 | 45
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 4
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 2
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 27
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money Legal19 Mar 2025 | 87
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union SSNs, payment details, and health info too Cyber-crime19 Mar 2025 | 3
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand Bootnotes19 Mar 2025 | 15
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 8
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in Patches19 Mar 2025 | 4
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 41
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 126
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful GTC Qubit awkward, you might say Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 5
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry Comment Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 39
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work Systems19 Mar 2025 | 26
Data deluge pushes financial services deeper into AI Harnessing AI to optimize applications and services is crucial but building the infrastructure is equally important
Closing the digital divide with 5G FWA How wireless can replace fiber for fast, cost-effective broadband deployments
Data resilience and data portability Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Science19 Mar 2025 | 73
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap Security19 Mar 2025 | 71
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Systems19 Mar 2025 | 1
'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day On-Prem19 Mar 2025 | 56
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0 Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update Testing? We've heard of it
Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport Power outage means no flights for 24 hours. And chaos. Lots of chaos
The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK's NCSC Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel OSes19 Mar 2025 | 89
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year 'Three-year' tech support deal still running PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
How prevention is better than cure Stop cyberattacks before they happen with preventative endpoint security Sponsored Post
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Science19 Mar 2025 | 9
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 137
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 96
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 29
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay DOGE efficiency in action Public Sector18 Mar 2025 | 51
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Applications18 Mar 2025 | 27
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown Research18 Mar 2025 | 57
Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose Personal Tech18 Mar 2025 | 6
Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO Applications18 Mar 2025 | 21
Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture Research18 Mar 2025 | 41