Telling an AI model that it's an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer -- Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts

10 hours ago

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers -- Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

1 hour ago

Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 -- Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped

6 hours ago

SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth -- New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target

4 hours ago

EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom -- interview -- Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government -- Security

34 minutes ago

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack - RSAC 2026 - Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects - RSA - 24 Mar 2026 - | 1

34 minutes ago

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus -- Science -- 24 Mar 2026

1 hour ago

LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised - Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline - Security - 24 Mar 2026 - |

2 hours ago

AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks -- Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city -- Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift -- Off-Prem

3 hours ago

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field -- Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows -- OSes

3 hours ago

Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train -- Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time -- Systems

4 hours ago

Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base -- NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently -- Science

4 hours ago

Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse -- The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics -- SaaS

4 hours ago

HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed -- Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia -- Cyber-crime

7 hours ago

Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive -- Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft -- Storage

8 hours ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

1 hour ago

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers -- Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink -- Networks

7 hours ago

Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' -- A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong? -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison -- Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions -- Cyber-crime

10 hours ago

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form -- Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs -- OSes

10 hours ago

SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth -- New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target -- Databases

10 hours ago

Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - Opinion - Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft - OSes - 24 Mar 2026 - | 53

1 hour ago

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers -- Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation -- Software

12 hours ago

Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 -- Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped -- Virtualization

8 hours ago

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term 'metaverse' -- 'People don't like wearing things on their faces and don't trust those who do' -- Personal Tech

15 hours ago

Telling an AI model that it's an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer -- Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts -- AI + ML

12 hours ago

Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss - RSAC 2026 - 'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 2

4 hours ago

Riding The Memory Boom And Trying To Avoid The Bust

3 hours ago

Data Analytics Helps Make The Mighty Lionesses Roar

1 day ago

Driving Down The AI System Roadmap With Nvidia

5 days ago

The Open Agentic AI World According To Nvidia

6 days ago

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge - feature - The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself

1 day ago

Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers - RSAC 2026 - Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 5

34 minutes ago

Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI -- Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider -- SaaS

17 hours ago

Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later -- Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year -- CSO

1 day ago

If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin -- Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcome -- AI + ML

1 day ago

AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions - RSAC 2026 - Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 12

34 minutes ago

SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site -- 10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup -- Systems

1 day ago

Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter -- Expendable military drones are so 2025 -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI

3 hours ago

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

1 day ago

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

1 hour ago

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer

5 days ago

Data analytics help make the mighty lionesses roar - Technology hones player decisions for women's team - Sponsored Post

1 day ago

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI - Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges - Software - 23 Mar 2026 - | 7

34 minutes ago

Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web -- Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy

22 hours ago

Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says -- Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins

16 minutes ago

SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute -- In space, no one can hear you being petty -- Networks

1 day ago

Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove -- US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in -- Databases

1 day ago

We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive - Review - More cores, higher clocks, lower prices - Personal Tech - 23 Mar 2026 - | 18

4 hours ago

Explainer: AI-ready servers - GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit - The Register Explainer

1 day ago

NGX rolls out ExaScale block storage for AI workloads

9 hours ago

Druva adds Okta, Active Directory to identity resilience platform

10 hours ago

Data analytics help make the mighty lionesses roar

1 day ago

Kioxia eyes GPU memory stack with high-bandwidth flash push

4 days ago

US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak - Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published - Cyber-crime - 23 Mar 2026 - |

1 day ago

RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere - kettle - Infosec pros descend on San Francisco - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 3

9 hours ago

Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates -- The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch -- OSes

1 day ago

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle' -- Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it -- Science

1 day ago

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope -- Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware -- Edge + IoT

1 day ago

CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime -- Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for - Opinion - Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your nose - Columnists - 23 Mar 2026 - | 46

3 hours ago

When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella -- National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm -- Science

1 day ago

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' -- Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up -- Systems

1 day ago

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 -- 'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues -- OSes

1 day ago

Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Singtel's triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more! -- Systems

1 day ago

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! -- Security

1 day ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

1 month ago

Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative -- A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

1 month ago

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor -- Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter -- Science

3 days ago

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat -- Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows -- Software

3 days ago

Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban - Updated - Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much - Security - 20 Mar 2026 - | 50

46 minutes ago

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst -- The market is contracting -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce -- Just the team, not the tech -- SaaS

4 days ago

WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps -- Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts -- OSes

4 days ago

Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V -- SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone? -- Science

4 days ago

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer - AI infrastructure is a systems problem. The CPU is at its center - Sponsored Post

5 days ago

Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update -- OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky -- OSes

4 days ago

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias -- Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks -- Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns -- Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China -- Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls -- Systems

4 days ago

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts -- Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor - Opinion - Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around - Public Sector - 20 Mar 2026 - | 123

5 hours ago

Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss -- Beats getting roasted on the mailing list -- AI + ML

4 days ago

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? On Call - He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB - On-Prem - 20 Mar 2026 - | 111

14 hours ago

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites -- 'Project Sunrise' needs a network that doesn't exist, a rocket that's hardly flown, and FCC approval -- Systems

4 days ago

Meta's latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little -- Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck's human mods couldn't join the dots -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be -- Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete -- Systems

4 days ago