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Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets 2026-03-04 at 01:52 By Tobias Mann Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference It’s a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics.… This article […]

Facebook is down, interrupting your poking and Meta’s ads business 2026-03-04 at 01:52 By Simon Sharwood Go outside and smell some flowers Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town 2026-03-04 at 01:52 By Jessica Lyons Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed A developer says their company is on the hook for more than $82,000 in unauthorized charges after a stolen

MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver 2026-03-04 at 00:59 By Brandon Vigliarolo Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice Can’t keep waiting on the transplant list? How about an injectable “satellite liver” instead? After an MIT research project showed early success,

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts 2026-03-03 at 23:39 By Thomas Claburn AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the

Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By Tobias Mann No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple RAM shortages and faster chips have a big impact on Apple’s next-gen laptops. On Tuesday, the iGiant unveiled its M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and M5 Airs

Lawmakers take pick to ICE’s warrantless location tracking purchases 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By Jessica Lyons After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label A group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security’s inspector general to investigate whether its agencies – including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – illegally purchased Americans’ location data

1M Impacted by University of Hawaii Cancer Center Breach 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center’s Epidemiology Division revealed it experienced a data breach.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran 2026-03-03 at 20:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers

Fake Tech Support Spam Deploys Customized Havoc C2 Across Organizations 2026-03-03 at 20:31 By Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data exfiltration or ransomware attack. The intrusions, identified by Huntress

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Liam Proven Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that’s your sort of thing BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 “Trixie” arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Carly Page Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it’s even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Carly Page Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids’ game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting

Building a High-Impact Tier 1: The 3 Steps CISOs Must Follow 2026-03-03 at 19:46 By Every CISO knows the uncomfortable truth about their Security Operations Center: the people most responsible for catching threats in real time are the people with the least experience. Tier 1 analysts sit at the front line of detection, and yet

Open-Source CyberStrikeAI Deployed in AI-Driven FortiGate Attacks Across 55 Countries 2026-03-03 at 19:46 By The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate appliances leveraged an open-source, AI-native security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI to execute the attacks. The new findings come from Team Cymru, which detected its use following an

Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal 2026-03-03 at 18:59 By O’Ryan Johnson The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics Accenture is going to get a closer look into how web traffic is moving…or not moving. The company has announced plans to buy Downdetector parent company Ookla

CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage 2026-03-03 at 16:38 By Dan Robinson Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We’ve heard of these things AI adoption is moving too rapidly say senior tech leaders, as the pressure to deploy clashes with risk management and compliance concerns.… This article is

New Research: 45% Cybersecurity Leaders Work a “Sixth Day” 2026-03-03 at 16:38 By Nearly half of cybersecurity leaders are working 11 or more extra hours per week.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline 2026-03-03 at 16:16 By Tim Anderson AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Europe

Until last month, attackers could’ve stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite 2026-03-03 at 16:16 By Thomas Claburn AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity’s Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft