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)

Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases

(2026/03/10)

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream



SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed

(2026/03/10)

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals



HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay

(2026/03/10)

With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins



Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

(2026/03/10)

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’



Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

(2026/03/10)

First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues



AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

(2026/03/09)

David and Goliath…but with AI agents



Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

(2026/03/09)

Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away



Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

(2026/03/09)

Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks



ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

(2026/03/09)

And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks



Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

(2026/03/09)

Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute



China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

(2026/03/09)

Not a US flag in sight



RSS dulls the pain of the modern web

(2026/03/09)

opinion Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things



'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

(2026/03/09)

Three agents is about all we can handle



Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

(2026/03/09)

E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy



EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

(2026/03/09)

Exclusive An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses



MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

(2026/03/09)

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source



LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

(2026/03/09)

Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export



Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B

(2026/03/09)

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker



Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

(2026/03/09)

Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country



Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts

(2026/03/09)

Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts



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