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)

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores

(2026/03/26)

Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part



'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans

(2026/03/26)

I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t give you your job back, but here’s the form you fill out to collect benefits



Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

(2026/03/26)

Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code



Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

(2026/03/26)

Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club?



Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

(2026/03/26)

Your AI rollout isn't failing – your employees just hate it



Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

(2026/03/26)

Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code



AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

(2026/03/26)

Interview Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away



Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China

(2026/03/26)

Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers



Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

(2026/03/26)

Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long



Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

(2026/03/26)

Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push



Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

(2026/03/26)

Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong'



UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

(2026/03/26)

300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life



Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

(2026/03/26)

CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA



Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

(2026/03/26)

Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure



Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic

(2026/03/26)

Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads



GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

(2026/03/26)

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out



AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation

(2026/03/25)

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization



Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud

(2026/03/25)

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone



Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

(2026/03/25)

RSAC 2026 Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security



Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

(2026/03/25)

rsac 2026 Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC…



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