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Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug

Thu, 2026-03-19 18:54
Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next?

Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…

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Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

Thu, 2026-03-19 18:30
Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety

It turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement, Google has given Android users an out.…

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'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge

Thu, 2026-03-19 18:07
CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'

A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice.…

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Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes

Thu, 2026-03-19 17:18
Better than seismometers?

Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.…

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GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Thu, 2026-03-19 16:54
Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028

GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.…

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FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again

Thu, 2026-03-19 16:43
Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable

It's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data of Americans, potentially in violation of the Constitution. Here we go again.…

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Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack

Thu, 2026-03-19 16:00
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune

The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.…

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PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

Thu, 2026-03-19 14:59
Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits

You'll use AI and like it too - if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made clear there is no room at the corporation for AI skeptics.…

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UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt

Thu, 2026-03-19 13:33
Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use

The UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes by default.…

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Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews

Thu, 2026-03-19 13:31
One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog

The UK's competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google's strategic market status (SMS) covering search and search advertising services - and the tech biz is offering some concessions.…

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Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

Thu, 2026-03-19 12:22
It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O

QCon London A member of Anthropic's AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at finding issues but still makes a poor substitute for a site reliability engineer (SRE), constantly mistaking correlation with causation.…

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Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned

Thu, 2026-03-19 12:15
New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want

Browser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.…

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Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee

Thu, 2026-03-19 12:05
Annual billed month subscription scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price

Britain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascertain if it breaks competition law.…

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Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users

Thu, 2026-03-19 11:00
Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification

Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming.…

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SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway

Thu, 2026-03-19 10:15
Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target

Five years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target by about €2 billion, The Register can reveal.…

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GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve

Thu, 2026-03-19 09:30
Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers

More powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatbot more accurate but are also slowing it down, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS).…

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Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Thu, 2026-03-19 07:30
From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything

Opinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clankers? A bot-licker, a prompt-fondler, a ChatNPC?…

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Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI

Thu, 2026-03-19 05:54
Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvas

The term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production. Google’s now proudly adapted the term to describe the workings of its Stitch design tool.…

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Your next car night need 300GB of RAM, and so will humanoid robots

Thu, 2026-03-19 04:39
Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter

Autonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and humanoid robots will need similar quantities, leading memory-maker Micron Technology to predict it has a long and happy future ahead of it.…

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Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices

Thu, 2026-03-19 00:47
Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party

Two more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains.…

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