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Meta Files Lawsuits Against Brazil, China, Vietnam Advertisers Over Celeb-Bait Scams 2026-02-27 at 10:17 By Meta on Thursday said it’s taking legal action to tackle scams on its platforms by filing lawsuits against what it calls deceptive advertisers based in Brazil, China, and Vietnam. As part of the effort, the advertisers’ methods of payment have

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy 2026-02-27 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make

NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a thin client for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs 2026-02-27 at 07:53 By Simon Sharwood Dell also joins the basic devices for Windows 365 fun Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians 2026-02-27 at 05:27 By Simon Sharwood AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its

New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects 2026-02-27 at 02:54 By Thomas Claburn Grants for critical, unappreciated projects Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).… This article is an excerpt from The

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump 2026-02-27 at 02:54 By Simon Sharwood One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000

ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets 2026-02-27 at 02:54 By O’Ryan Johnson When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company’s own employee

Fujitsu taps Broadcom’s 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU 2026-02-27 at 02:54 By Tobias Mann Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom’s XDSiP platform Fujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger revealed on Thursday.… This article is an excerpt