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Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets - 13/03 7:49 am

Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.





Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is .. - 13/03 6:39 am

Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.





District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data - 13/03 4:32 am

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered American parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do.





Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens .. - 13/03 4:27 am

International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide and carry out digital fraud, costing businesses and consumers millions.





Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information - 13/03 3:17 am

It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice Microsoft wants to store your healthcare data so that its AI "delivers personalized health insights that you can act on," but without the liability that comes with actual medical advice.





Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying - 13/03 1:07 am

Government offers 100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs The UK's Department for Transport is offering up to 100,000 over three years for access to a C++ programmer who can keep a module of its airport usage model up in the air.





White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war .. - 13/03 1:01 am

Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda Anime mainstay Yu-Gi-Oh has criticized the White House for using a clip from the TV show in videos promoting US military action.





Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline - 13/03 12:41 am

OEM delays have become patient care delays When patient care is delayed in a hospital because something is broken, biomedical technicians would like you to understand that it's not usually their fault.





Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M - 13/03 12:00 am

Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more Oracle has increased funding for its restructuring plans for the current financial year by $500 million, with some observers anticipating a spate of job losses.





Musk makes the Macrohard joke again - 12/03 11:33 pm

The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies' Elon Musk wheeled out his "Macrohard" dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of "Digital Optimus" agents that he claims would be capable of "emulating the function of entire companies."





Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward - 12/03 10:36 pm

Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on- demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan Developers using Google's Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving its AI plans.





Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 - 12/03 10:23 pm

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds in the history of programming he also came up with a number of the field's pithiest quotes.





NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag - 12/03 9:47 pm

Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury NASA's Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth's atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 chance that its components could cause injury.





CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild - 12/03 9:34 pm

No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.





Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and .. - 12/03 9:22 pm

Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder' Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.





Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and .. - 12/03 9:14 pm

US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract Medical and legal rights campaigners are warning that the Palantir data platform, designed to be at the heart of England's health system, risks enabling UK immigration and policing departments to access confidential patient information.





Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions - 12/03 9:03 pm

Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments just not their own Updated Customers of three major UK banks woke on Thursday to find incorrect transactions appearing in their apps, a problem later attributed to a technical glitch.





Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator - 12/03 7:32 pm

All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going Bork!Bork!Bork! Smart mirrors are all the rage. However, rather than a list of headlines and tasks to do today, an unhappy Windows installation can make a smart mirror seem very dumb indeed.





Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles - 12/03 6:59 pm

DSTL bets 350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials Britain has taken the first steps towards producing its own ultrahigh temperature materials, regarded as vital for applications including hypersonic vehicles, space, and advanced propulsion systems.





So much for power to the people AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue - 12/03 6:15 pm

Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook The British government is consulting on reforms to prioritize "strategically important" grid connections including datacenters amid reports of delays stretching more than a decade on some projects.





Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - 12/03 2:10 pm

Out of the Copilot and into the fire Please let there be Xbork as this appears in all the wrong places Organizations that rely on consumer-grade PCs or allow staff to bring their own devices to work, have something new to worry about: a virtual Xbox lurking inside Windows 11.





Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform .. - 12/03 1:27 pm

Deploying them by the gigawatt but still cant flag obvious AI slop Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.





Chinas CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds - 12/03 11:06 am

Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it Chinas National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team has warned locals that the OpenClaw agentic AI tool poses significant security risks.





Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI - 12/03 7:37 am

Company is reshaping our skill mix amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has announced it will shed ten percent of staff around 1,600 people.





Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban - 12/03 7:26 am

Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appeal Perplexity's AI browser Comet has been banned from accessing Amazon's website after the e-commerce giant obtained a court-ordered preliminary injunction.





Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants - 12/03 6:18 am

State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted Iran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Irans state-affiliated Tasnim news agency.





Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm - 12/03 4:40 am

Meanwhile, Verifone says 'no evidence' to support the digital intruders' claims A hacking crew with ties to Iran's intelligence agency claimed to be behind a global network outage at med-tech firm Stryker on Wednesday, and said the cyberattack was in response to the US-Israel airstrikes.





Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study .. - 12/03 3:41 am

I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that? You might expect a bot to have guardrails that prevent it from helping you plan a crime, but your expectations might be too high. According to a study, eight of ten major commercial chatbots will help you prepare to conduct a school shooting.





Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers - 12/03 1:21 am

150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.





Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh - 12/03 12:27 am

Let them eat cores Intel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range.





NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans - 11/03 11:03 pm

Inspector general flags Starship risks and gaps in testing The NASA Office of Inspector General has published a report on the agency's management of the lunar Human Landing System (HLS) contracts, highlighting the risks and arguments behind the scenes.





Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half - 11/03 11:00 pm

Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables Photonics startup Lightmatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.





DR-DOS rises again rebuilt from scratch, not open source - 11/03 10:37 pm

Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only DR-DOS is back, and there is already a test version you can download. But as of yet, it's not finished, not FOSS and not based on the original code.





ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct .. - 11/03 10:06 pm

Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force 66k fine The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland 66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.





Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns - 11/03 9:38 pm

This is not satire, but we wish it was The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.





Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system - 11/03 9:01 pm

Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server. Exclusive If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.





Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy - 11/03 8:43 pm

AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget Feature Hyperscale computing was built on a foundation of certainty. For years, 12V and 48V rack architectures implemented at a steady 5054 VDC (Volts of Direct Current) - ruled the datacenter floor, engineered to perfection for power densities of 1015 kW per rack. These systems were finely tuned machines, optimized around the predictable, steady-state demands of general-purpose CPUs and storage servers. The ..





Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc .. - 11/03 8:38 pm

Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.





Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to .. - 11/03 8:31 pm

Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.





Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards - 11/03 8:12 pm

17-year-old allegedly withdrew large sums of cash from ATMs Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who detectives suspect was responsible for 16 bank card frauds across the Netherlands.




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