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)

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



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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

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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

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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

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

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David and Goliath…but with AI agents



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(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

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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

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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

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



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No one likes us.
I don't know why.
We may not be perfect, We give them money,
But heaven knows we try. But are they grateful?
But all around, No, they're spiteful,
Even our old friends put us down. And they're hateful.
Let's drop the big one, They don't respect us,
And see what happens. So let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one,
And pulverize 'em.
Asia's crowded,
Europe's too old,
Africa is far too hot, We'll save Australia.
And Canada's too cold. Don't wanna hurt no kangaroos.
And South America stole our name We'll build an All-American amusement
Let's drop the big one, park there--
There'll be no one left to blame us. They got surfin', too!

Boom! goes London,
And Boom! Paree.
More room for you, Oh, how peaceful it'll be!
And more room for me, We'll set everybody free!
And every city, You'll wear a Japanese kimono, babe;
The whole world round, There'll be Italian shoes for me!
Will just be another American town. They all hate us anyhow,
So, let's drop the big one now.
Let's drop the big one now!
-- Randy Newman, "Drop the Big One"