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HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay

13 min 58 sec ago
With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins

HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

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Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

1 hour 45 min ago
As Department of Agriculture staff come back to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

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Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

Mon, 2026-03-09 23:06
First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

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AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Mon, 2026-03-09 22:22
David and Goliath…but with AI agents

Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

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Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Mon, 2026-03-09 20:19
Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away

Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

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Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

Mon, 2026-03-09 19:26
Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks

Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

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ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

Mon, 2026-03-09 18:30
And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks

ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

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Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

Mon, 2026-03-09 18:08
Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

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China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Mon, 2026-03-09 17:49
Not a US flag in sight

Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…

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Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

Mon, 2026-03-09 17:26
Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things

opinion A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

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'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

Mon, 2026-03-09 17:13
Three agents is about all we can handle

As AI adoption in the workplace accelerates, many people find themselves in a position where babysitting bots and agents is a significant part of their day. Those people are feeling a bit like AI has fried their brains. …

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Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

Mon, 2026-03-09 16:28
E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

Microsoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).…

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EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

Mon, 2026-03-09 16:02
An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses

Exclusive ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…

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MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

Mon, 2026-03-09 14:45
But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source

After a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

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LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Mon, 2026-03-09 14:19
Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export

Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.…

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Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B

Mon, 2026-03-09 13:40
Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.…

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Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

Mon, 2026-03-09 13:08
Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country

Dutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers - 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face public shaming.…

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Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Mon, 2026-03-09 12:40
Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts

Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

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NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

Mon, 2026-03-09 12:08
Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…

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Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

Mon, 2026-03-09 11:58
This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…

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