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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 […]

EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach 2026-03-17 at 18:24 By Connor Jones State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.… This […]

HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push 2026-03-17 at 18:24 By Chris Mellor Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked ‘AI Grid’ HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, […]

Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire 2026-03-17 at 18:04 By Richard Speed Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball The rollback to the launchpad for NASA’s monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed […]

Amazon launches 1-hour, 3-hour delivery options: Here’s what it will cost you 2026-03-17 at 17:32 By Associated Press The e-commerce giant said it started testing the express delivery service late last year and expanding it this month. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

LeakNet Ransomware Uses ClickFix via Hacked Sites, Deploys Deno In-Memory Loader 2026-03-17 at 17:11 By The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is […]