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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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Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

Wed, 2026-03-25 11:00
A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code

Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?…

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YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

Wed, 2026-03-25 10:15
BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown

Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is… kind of.…

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Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K

Wed, 2026-03-25 09:30
AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it?

The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of £140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff.…

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Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs

Wed, 2026-03-25 07:29
Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

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Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle

Wed, 2026-03-25 06:52
Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads

Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free.…

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Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models

Wed, 2026-03-25 03:52
Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare

Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set.…

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HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy

Wed, 2026-03-25 00:06
'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings

You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.…

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AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine

Tue, 2026-03-24 23:21
Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles

Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…

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EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom

Tue, 2026-03-24 21:00
Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

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1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

Tue, 2026-03-24 20:31
Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

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Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens

Tue, 2026-03-24 20:02
They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus

An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.…

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LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised

Tue, 2026-03-24 19:11
Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline

Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

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AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks

Tue, 2026-03-24 18:32
Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay

AI isn't killing jobs wholesale – it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time.…

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Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

Tue, 2026-03-24 17:56
Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift

The post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.…

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Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Tue, 2026-03-24 17:29
Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

After weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…

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