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Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security

Mon, 2026-03-16 20:15
'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO

gtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. …

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Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack

Mon, 2026-03-16 20:04
Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told

Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.…

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Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors

Mon, 2026-03-16 19:35
The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores

GTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.…

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Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time

Mon, 2026-03-16 19:30
GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever

GTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. …

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Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war

Mon, 2026-03-16 18:40
Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts'

Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.…

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Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

Mon, 2026-03-16 17:23
Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects

Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.…

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AI takes on Robotron: 2084, the original robot uprising simulator

Mon, 2026-03-16 16:50
Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test

A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.…

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AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals

Mon, 2026-03-16 16:40
Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable

AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…

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Boffins hook fly brain map to virtual body, which starts looking for sugar

Mon, 2026-03-16 14:35
Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about

San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.…

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Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI

Mon, 2026-03-16 14:19
F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models.…

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Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

Mon, 2026-03-16 13:27
iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components

Apple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.…

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ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%

Mon, 2026-03-16 12:59
McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff

Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.…

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Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems

Mon, 2026-03-16 12:30
Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacy

Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.…

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Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records

Mon, 2026-03-16 12:18
Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork

Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.…

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Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/

Mon, 2026-03-16 11:37
'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility

Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.…

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UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

Mon, 2026-03-16 11:05
'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics

The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…

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West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times

Mon, 2026-03-16 10:15
Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41M

West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.…

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Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny

Mon, 2026-03-16 09:30
System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments

More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.…

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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

Mon, 2026-03-16 07:30
Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus

Who, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.…

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AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’

Mon, 2026-03-16 06:24
Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint

Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.…

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