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Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

4 hours 33 min ago
CarStation/PlayMobile won’t 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 won’t happen.…

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Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

7 hours 40 min ago
Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure

Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…

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Datacenter batteries are selling out years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic

10 hours 35 sec ago
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.…

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GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

10 hours 44 min ago
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.…

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AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

Wed, 2026-03-25 20:50
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.…

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Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud

Wed, 2026-03-25 20:25
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. …

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Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

Wed, 2026-03-25 19:39
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.…

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Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

Wed, 2026-03-25 18:55
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.…

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Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI

Wed, 2026-03-25 18:27
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.…

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Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains

Wed, 2026-03-25 17:47
Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution

Oracle says it's building a suite of AI agents binto 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.…

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Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros

Wed, 2026-03-25 17:17
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.…

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OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become

Wed, 2026-03-25 16:36
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.…

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Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

Wed, 2026-03-25 15:19
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.…

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Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants

Wed, 2026-03-25 14:35
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.…

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NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers

Wed, 2026-03-25 14:11
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.…

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JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming

Wed, 2026-03-25 13:29
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.…

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Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life

Wed, 2026-03-25 13:00
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.…

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Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs

Wed, 2026-03-25 12:30
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.…

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HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away

Wed, 2026-03-25 12:18
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.…

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Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra

Wed, 2026-03-25 11:41
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.…

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