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
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