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Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours

Tue, 2026-03-03 05:25
Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code

Anthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.…

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Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world

Tue, 2026-03-03 02:49
Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter

As the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they have a new option: China’s Huawei.…

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Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery

Tue, 2026-03-03 00:33
Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens

Microsoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices.…

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Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing

Mon, 2026-03-02 23:33
Coherent, Lumentum each walk away with $2B in cash and a multi-billion purchase commitment

Nvidia is dipping into its war chest once again this week, investing $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum to lock in supply of the vendors' respective silicon photonics technologies.…

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Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

Mon, 2026-03-02 22:55
Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

The war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts.…

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AWS outages spread as Iran bombards targets across Gulf region

Mon, 2026-03-02 21:14
Multiple AWS zones in UAE and Bahrain offline or disrupted

Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…

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Iran's cyberwar has begun

Mon, 2026-03-02 20:52
'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future'

Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and security researchers urge organizations to expect more cyber intrusions as the war continues.…

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Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack

Mon, 2026-03-02 20:11
Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'

Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.…

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Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Mon, 2026-03-02 19:45
Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027

GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…

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US struck Iran with copies of its own drones

Mon, 2026-03-02 19:17
Iran's own technology reverse engineered and used against it.

The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces struck Iranian targets using weapons that are copies of Iran's own Shahed 136 suicide drones.…

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UK Businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk

Mon, 2026-03-02 18:44
NCSC urges all to review posture as escalating tensions increase risk of indirect digital spillover

The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…

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Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was

Mon, 2026-03-02 18:17
Meanwhile, formal 6G specs are still in the works

It seems like just yesterday that the 5G rollout started. Now, at Mobile World Congress, major companies are already talking about commercializing 6G. Never mind that binding 6G standards haven't been nailed down yet.…

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Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters

Mon, 2026-03-02 17:47
Saves real estate by putting the power on the water

Datacenters increasingly want dedicated power, and Singapore has a unique solution. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) and Concord New Energy (CNE) are working to put hydrogen power generators on barges, saying that this arrangement is particularly suited to the local environment.…

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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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