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Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be 2026-03-20 at 04:26 By Simon Sharwood Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival […]

Decoding Nvidia’s Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems 2026-03-20 at 01:45 By Tobias Mann From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia’s latest kit GTC DEEP DIVE  At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged […]

Doctors dismissed my cancer symptoms as stress and gas — so I built an AI that can catch it sooner and personalize treatment 2026-03-19 at 23:55 By Emma Glassman-Hughes “Everything I’m on was prescribed by doctors, but the AI coached me on how to talk about it,” Steve Brown said. This article is an excerpt […]

OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral 2026-03-19 at 23:54 By Thomas Claburn Deal helps company build out its Codex team In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for […]

Time to end the ‘uncontrolled experiment’ of social media on kids, scientists say 2026-03-19 at 22:56 By Brandon Vigliarolo Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline There is enough evidence going back far enough that it’s reasonable to conclude social media platforms are […]

Speagle Malware Hijacks Cobra DocGuard to Steal Data via Compromised Servers 2026-03-19 at 22:55 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware dubbed Speagle that hijacks the functionality and infrastructure of a legitimate program called Cobra DocGuard. “Speagle is designed to surreptitiously harvest sensitive information from infected computers and transmit it to a Cobra DocGuard […]

Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes 2026-03-19 at 22:28 By Dan Robinson Better than seismometers? Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

‘Death sentence’: EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge 2026-03-19 at 22:28 By Paul Kunert CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant’s ‘ongoing abuse’ A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from […]

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center 2026-03-19 at 22:28 By Liam Proven Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028 GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, […]

Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug 2026-03-19 at 20:54 By Jessica Lyons Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who’s next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims’ SharePoint servers, the US government warned.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 34 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security 2026-03-19 at 20:52 By A new analysis of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) by abusing a total of 34 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer […]

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2026-03-19 at 20:30 By Thomas Claburn Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety It turns out you won’t be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face […]

Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack 2026-03-19 at 18:19 By Jessica Lyons Iran-linked attackers wiped employees’ devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week’s cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren’t convinced about AI 2026-03-19 at 18:19 By Dan Robinson Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits You’ll use AI and like it too – if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made […]

UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt 2026-03-19 at 16:56 By Lindsay Clark Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use The UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes by default.… This article is an excerpt from […]

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews 2026-03-19 at 16:56 By Richard Speed One search engine switch to rule them all in Google’s response to UK competition watchdog The UK’s competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google’s strategic market status (SMS) covering search and search advertising services […]

New Perseus Android Banking Malware Monitors Notes Apps to Extract Sensitive Data 2026-03-19 at 16:53 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new Android malware family called Perseus that’s being actively distributed in the wild with an aim to conduct device takeover (DTO) and financial fraud. Perseus is built upon the foundations of Cerberus and Phoenix, […]

ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More 2026-03-19 at 16:53 By ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of […]

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering 2026-03-19 at 14:59 By Tim Anderson It’s still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O QCon London  A member of Anthropic’s AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at finding issues […]

Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee 2026-03-19 at 14:59 By Paul Kunert Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price Britain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascertain if it breaks competition law.… This article is […]