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)

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

(2026/03/04)

Updated Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft



Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform

(2026/03/04)

Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft



One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

(2026/03/04)

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM



European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

(2026/03/04)

Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes



Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

(2026/03/04)

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe



OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

(2026/03/04)

The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department



Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets

(2026/03/04)

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference



Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

(2026/03/04)

Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed



Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business

(2026/03/04)

Updated Go outside and smell some flowers



MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver

(2026/03/03)

Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice



Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

(2026/03/03)

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details



Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut

(2026/03/03)

No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple



Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases

(2026/03/03)

After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label



Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran

(2026/03/03)

No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict



Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal

(2026/03/03)

The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics



BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13

(2026/03/03)

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing



Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better

(2026/03/03)

Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies



Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists

(2026/03/03)

Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails



CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage

(2026/03/03)

Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things



AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline

(2026/03/03)

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market



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