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

1 hour 7 min ago
'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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Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train

Tue, 2026-03-24 17:00
Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time

Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.…

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Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base

Tue, 2026-03-24 16:38
NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently

NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. …

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Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse

Tue, 2026-03-24 16:08
The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics

Datadog is close to releasing an updated AI model that it thinks will help it avoid the so-called SaaSpocalypse – customers using AI to build their own tools.…

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HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed

Tue, 2026-03-24 13:27
Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia

Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…

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Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive

Tue, 2026-03-24 13:05
Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces. Or top up the bucket of slop, depending on your perspective.…

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New routers? Made abroad? Yeah, that's going to be a no from Uncle Sam

Tue, 2026-03-24 12:19
Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…

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Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents'

Tue, 2026-03-24 11:52
A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong?

Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.…

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Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison

Tue, 2026-03-24 11:32
Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions

A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…

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Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

Tue, 2026-03-24 11:00
Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs

AntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it's able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs – and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.…

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SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth

Tue, 2026-03-24 10:15
New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target

SAP has begun to shift focus away from its failure to hit legacy software and cloud migration targets and onto the latest so-called "innovation" elements of its portfolio, such as AI.…

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Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds

Tue, 2026-03-24 09:30
Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft

Opinion Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?…

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