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Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs - 25/03 3:29 pm

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End- user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMwares virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the worlds enterprise hardware fleet and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.





Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle - 25/03 2:52 pm

Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.





Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run Chinas top AI models - 25/03 11:52 am

Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.





HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at .. - 25/03 8:32 am

'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings Youve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.





AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money .. - 25/03 7:21 am

Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the companys annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.





EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom - 25/03 6:44 am

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.





1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack - 25/03 4:31 am

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret- stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.





Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens - 25/03 4:02 am

They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.





LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised - 25/03 3:11 am

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential- stealing code.





AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks - 25/03 2:32 am

Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay AI isn't killing jobs wholesale it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time.





Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city - 25/03 1:56 am

Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift The post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.





Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field - 25/03 1:29 am

Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows After weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.





Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train - 25/03 1:24 am

Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n- bake blueprint during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.





Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' - 25/03 1:17 am

A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items what could go wrong? Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.





Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base - 25/03 12:38 am

NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface.





Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse - 25/03 12:08 am

The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics Datadog is close to releasing an updated AI model that it thinks will help it avoid the so-called SaaSpocalypse customers using AI to build their own tools.





Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - 24/03 11:23 pm

Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft Opinion Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?





Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign .. - 24/03 9:48 pm

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.





HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed - 24/03 9:27 pm

Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.





Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive - 24/03 9:05 pm

Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft Microsoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces. Or top up the bucket of slop, depending on your perspective.





Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in .. - 24/03 7:32 pm

Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.





Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form - 24/03 7:00 pm

Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs AntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it's able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.





SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of .. - 24/03 6:15 pm

New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls 2B behind target SAP has begun to shift focus away from its failure to hit legacy software and cloud migration targets and onto the latest so-called "innovation" elements of its portfolio, such as AI.





EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers - 24/03 4:45 pm

Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation Europe's broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are fast becoming the next Big Tech gatekeepers, with little sign of Brussels stepping in.





Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 - 24/03 1:58 pm

Analyst says many others wouldnt mind doing the same, but feel stuck Half of VMware users plan to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneers products by 2028, according to a survey by independent analyst firm Virtified.





Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who .. - 24/03 12:35 am

People dont like wearing things on their faces and dont trust those who do Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.





Telling an AI model that its an expert programmer makes it a worse .. - 24/03 8:20 am

Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts Many people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.





Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former .. - 24/03 6:50 am

'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss RSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.





Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA .. - 24/03 6:46 am

Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.





Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says - 24/03 6:45 am

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins RSAC 2026 Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.





AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions - 24/03 6:43 am

Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC RSAC 2026 There's a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity.





Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove - 24/03 5:53 am

US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency .





Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI - 24/03 5:45 am

Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider Snowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.





Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions .. - 24/03 4:42 am

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials.





We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and .. - 24/03 4:08 am

More cores, higher clocks, lower prices Review It's a tough time to be a PC enthusiast. Between the memory crunch and the AI boom driving up prices on storage, DDR5, and GPUs, it's gotten prohibitively expensive to build a PC.





If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin - 24/03 3:53 am

Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcome Imagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of herself instead. With a digital twin, even your company's CEO - the one who spends all his time on the corporate jet - could make an appearance at your powwow about the break room coffee machine. But would you want them there?





SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site - 24/03 1:29 am

10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup Softbank's SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus, adding extra generation facilities and power infrastructure alongside it.





US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor then came the .. - 24/03 12:47 am

Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.





Forget drones the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk .. - 24/03 12:47 am

Expendable military drones are so 2025 The US Army just took receipt of what may be the coolest unmanned drone ever flown by the military: A full-sized Black Hawk helicopter.





Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI - 24/03 12:13 am

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.




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