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)

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

(2026/03/18)

Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating



Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains

(2026/03/18)

What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it



Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

(2026/03/18)

Good luck with that



Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence

(2026/03/18)

Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffle



North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

(2026/03/18)

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators



AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

(2026/03/18)

QCon London Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review



Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul

(2026/03/18)

Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now



Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

(2026/03/18)

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability



IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab

(2026/03/18)

Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting



Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months

(2026/03/18)

Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable



It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA

(2026/03/18)

Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands



Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'

(2026/03/18)

24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement



Iran's cyberattack against med tech firm is 'just the beginning'

(2026/03/18)

Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack'



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



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