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Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

Mon, 2026-03-02 16:44
Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations

The Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language's FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to implementation.…

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Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak

Mon, 2026-03-02 16:14
Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince Tahoe your Mac is under organizational control

Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.…

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Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck

Mon, 2026-03-02 15:06
Artemis III now to follow in Apollo 9's footsteps, 2028 landing still planned for Artemis IV

NASA has reshuffled its Artemis program, pushing the first crewed lunar landing in more than half a century back to Artemis IV, with Artemis III performing a check-out of the lunar lander in Earth orbit.…

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SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata

Mon, 2026-03-02 14:15
A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids

Data warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to bring the fighting to a close.…

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Memory scalpers hunt scarce DRAM with bot blitz

Mon, 2026-03-02 14:00
We can remember it for you wholesale, and sell it back to you for big bucks

Web scraping bots are increasing the pressure on the tech supply chain by scouring sites for DRAM, so their minders can snap up increasingly scarce inventory and resell it for a quick profit.…

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Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes

Mon, 2026-03-02 13:42
Vulnerable citizens targeted by criminals purporting to represent fake police crisis department

Scammers targeted Dubai citizens mere hours after missiles struck the city, attempting to gain access to their bank accounts, police have warned.…

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Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell

Mon, 2026-03-02 12:33
More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016

Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.…

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Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

Mon, 2026-03-02 11:45
A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

The new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.…

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Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

Mon, 2026-03-02 10:58
Official monitoring shows connectivity collapsing to near-zero

Iran's internet has plunged into a near-total blackout, with traffic down to around 1 percent of normal levels and connectivity described as "close to zero" as authorities curb access amid widening regional conflict.…

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Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here

Mon, 2026-03-02 10:13
Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass

Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a mixture of the two, is less clear.…

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LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go

Mon, 2026-03-02 09:30
Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora

The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…

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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Mon, 2026-03-02 07:30
Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors!

Who, Me? A weekend of unwinding is behind us, so The Register returns to work on Monday with a fresh installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that reveals how you got in a tangle, and then extricated yourself.…

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OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

Mon, 2026-03-02 05:27
Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails

OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified environments, and urged the Pentagon to make the same terms available to its rivals.…

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UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

Mon, 2026-03-02 03:27
PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection

Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part of a program kicked off early last year.…

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South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto

Mon, 2026-03-02 00:51
Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds

South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash.…

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Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

Sun, 2026-03-01 23:01
New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability score

If you own a desktop computer, you're used to swapping parts and peripherals around, but most laptops are closed boxes with few ways to modify them. Lenovo's new ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept shows what happens when you can remove a screen, a keyboard, and even blocks of ports from a mobile PC.…

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AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

Sun, 2026-03-01 22:49
PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!

Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.…

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OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

Sun, 2026-03-01 11:30
A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

Interview Ideally, you shouldn't have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don't live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.…

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SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again

Sun, 2026-03-01 08:38
Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle

Opinion Say goodbye to the SaaS-pocalypse theory, which posits that advances in AI will bring the software-as-a-service market to its knees. Say hello to "a feedback loop with no natural brake." Or doomster porn, as others would have it.…

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Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government'

Sat, 2026-02-28 11:11
Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all

Interview Hackers – especially Jake Braun – are "fed up with government."…

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