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
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 |
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 | 70
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
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 | 12
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
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
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
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
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 | 107
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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 |
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
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
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
STORIES
Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban
Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appeal
AI + ML11 Mar 2026 | 22
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
How AI is boosting gender equality in high-performance racing
A virtual Driver Agent is leveling the odds for female motorsport drivers
Sponsored Post
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 | 198
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
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
Public Sector11 Mar 2026 | 107
Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards
17-year-old allegedly withdrew large sums of cash from ATMs
Cyber-crime11 Mar 2026 | 2
Biting the hand that feeds IT
