ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand

(2026/03/18)

Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon



Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system

(2026/03/18)

Rozum orchestrates multiple flaky models and drives them to reasonable conclusions



Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports

(2026/03/18)

Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling



Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st

(2026/03/18)

In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’



Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again

(2026/03/18)

GTC Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs



WorldCoin's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you

(2026/03/17)

Sell your soul to the orb



AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left

(2026/03/17)

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart



Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a budget bière

(2026/03/17)

Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots



Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia

(2026/03/17)

gtc The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs



HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push

(2026/03/17)

GTC Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'



EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach

(2026/03/17)

State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties



Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire

(2026/03/17)

Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball



Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python

(2026/03/17)

JavaOne Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases



Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

(2026/03/17)

Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031



Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

(2026/03/17)

Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2



Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses

(2026/03/17)

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information



Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS

(2026/03/17)

Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change



Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

(2026/03/17)

Feature SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else



In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

(2026/03/17)

A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day



BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

(2026/03/17)

MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead



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