March 2026

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work 2026-03-08 at 14:34 By Jessica Lyons Crims ‘will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,’ Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg interview  AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the “janitorial-type work” needed to plan and carry out […]

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom 2026-03-08 at 11:32 By Carly Page What hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet’s most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues 2026-03-07 at 20:31 By OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model 2026-03-07 at 15:18 By Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics 2026-03-07 at 14:29 By Tobias Mann Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits feature  By now you’ve probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It’s an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.… This article is an excerpt from The

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services 2026-03-07 at 13:26 By SA Mathieson ‘There’s a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall’ Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.… This article is an

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet 2026-03-07 at 11:34 By Richard Speed Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union’s Venera 3.… This article is an excerpt from The