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Tax scams on the rise as April 15 approaches, IRS warns: Here are the ‘dirty dozen’ hoaxes to avoid 2026-03-18 at 12:36 By Brooke Steinberg Fraudsters are waiting to pounce as the filing deadline gets closer. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

It’s not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA 2026-03-18 at 12:36 By Liam Proven Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It’s not very fast, but it makes it easier to

Europe’s cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech ‘sovereignty-washing’ 2026-03-18 at 11:32 By Dan Robinson 24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement Execs from 24 European cloud and digital service providers are urging the European Commission to legislate for real tech sovereignty – not the illusion of it – in

Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit 2026-03-18 at 11:02 By A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control

Iran’s cyberattack against med tech firm is ‘just the beginning’ 2026-03-18 at 09:41 By Jessica Lyons Even without a navy, or air power, ‘They’ll still have the ability to hack’ Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.… This article is an excerpt from The

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Thomas Claburn ‘Rozum’ orchestrates multiple flaky models and drives them to reasonable conclusions Tech companies have in recent years developed a reputation for being rapacious rent-seekers, but can also be unwittingly generous

Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34 percent, blames hardware costs and AI demand 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Simon Sharwood Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged – even on Alibaba’s own silicon Alibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.… This article is an excerpt

Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue

Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23 2026-03-18 at 07:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS

Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports 2026-03-18 at 06:52 By Simon Sharwood Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to

Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st 2026-03-18 at 05:04 By Simon Sharwood In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’ Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Nvidia’s on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again 2026-03-18 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs GTC  Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said

Twitter shareholder lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of driving down stock goes to jury: ‘Knew what he was doing’ 2026-03-18 at 01:33 By Associated Press The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X, in October 2022. This article is an

WorldCoin‘s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you 2026-03-17 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind

Senators demand ByteDance ‘immediately shut down’ Seedance AI video app that created fake Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt brawl 2026-03-17 at 21:39 By Thomas Barrabi Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch have demanded that ByteDance “immediately shut down” Seedance due to what they described as “glaring” copyright issues. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left 2026-03-17 at 21:17 By Corey Quinn Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart Earlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as

Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a budget bière 2026-03-17 at 21:02 By Thomas Claburn Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots Your AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding

Best printer deals right now: 11 standout steals on HP, Canon, Epson, more 2026-03-17 at 19:47 By Barret Wertz We’re laser focused on these deals that are hot off the press. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

AI Flaws in Amazon Bedrock, LangSmith, and SGLang Enable Data Exfiltration and RCE 2026-03-17 at 19:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code

Chips…in…spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia 2026-03-17 at 19:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs gtc  Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as “peak insanity” – Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically