Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries.

CarStation/PlayMobile wont hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle wont happen.

Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nations CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" to train its AI models.

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.

Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution Oracle says it's building a suite of AI agents into its cloud- based enterprise applications, claiming they can make and execute decisions autonmomously within business processes. But analysts are urging caution given unresolved questions around data integration and liability.

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company.

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.

Forget the metaverse Meta has begun laying off employees as it focuses more of its cash on building out datacenters, training its own large language models, and recruiting talent for AI.

Plus one actual physicist Donald Trump has named the first members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), largely comprising Trump allies in the tech industry and one actual scientist.

AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? OpenAI on Wednesday announced the death of its controversial Sora video creation tool, just two days after publishing a guide on how to use it well.

Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation The UK's tax collection agency has awarded Amazon Web Services the only remaining bidder a contract worth nearly 500 million to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and host them for up to a decade.

In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers Firefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome.

Effort includes permitting and planning Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects.

Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase? Opinion NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back.

Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas Dev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature.

Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades Dell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves - but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals.

I'll just clear up that up, shall I? Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.

Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through.

A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?

BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is kind of.

AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of 140.7M budget. Fancy it? The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of 140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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$.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?