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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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Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market

Thu, 2026-03-19 00:28
Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth?

Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.…

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Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents

Wed, 2026-03-18 23:05
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that?

Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.…

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State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns

Wed, 2026-03-18 21:39
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month

A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…

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Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health

Wed, 2026-03-18 20:43
Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes

Sometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental health issues.…

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ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

Wed, 2026-03-18 19:43
The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it

One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect.…

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Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC

Wed, 2026-03-18 18:14
Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say

GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.…

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Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric

Wed, 2026-03-18 17:44
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says

Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.…

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Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure

Wed, 2026-03-18 17:40
Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…

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Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere

Wed, 2026-03-18 17:08
Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW

Ohio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.…

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Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

Wed, 2026-03-18 17:06
Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating

Microsoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.…

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