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Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI 2026-03-16 at 16:43 By Richard Speed F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor’s models.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years 2026-03-16 at 15:51 By Carly Page iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components Apple’s latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven’t offered in years: a fighting chance of being […]

Beyond the Perimeter: Authorization That Moves With Your APIs 2026-03-16 at 15:10 By Rob Wilson Part 3 of 3: Designing security that operates at machine speed This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power 2026-03-16 at 15:10 By Carly Page ‘Sunrise’ beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear […]

Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/ 2026-03-16 at 15:10 By Richard Speed ‘Access denied’ errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C: drive access problems coincidentally close to March’s Patch Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

DRILLAPP Backdoor Targets Ukraine, Abuses Microsoft Edge Debugging for Stealth Espionage 2026-03-16 at 15:10 By Ukrainian entities have emerged as the target of a new campaign likely orchestrated by threat actors linked to Russia, according to a report from S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team. The campaign, observed in February 2026, has been assessed to […]

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30% 2026-03-16 at 14:59 By Lindsay Clark McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI […]

Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems 2026-03-16 at 14:30 By Rupert Goodwins Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacy Opinion  There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it […]

Flaw in UK’s corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records 2026-03-16 at 14:18 By Connor Jones Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a “security issue” that exposed the personal details of […]

Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic 2026-03-16 at 13:58 By If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corner. A pentest engagement, or maybe an automated pentesting product, in another. A vulnerability scanner feeding an attack surface management platform somewhere else. […]

ClickFix Campaigns Spread MacSync macOS Infostealer via Fake AI Tool Installers 2026-03-16 at 13:41 By Three different ClickFix campaigns have been found to act as a delivery vector for the deployment of a macOS information stealer called MacSync. “Unlike traditional exploit-based attacks, this method relies entirely on user interaction – usually in the form of […]

Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn’t paid a penny 2026-03-16 at 11:30 By Carly Page System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting […]

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ 2026-03-16 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Cloudy storage service’s scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.… This article is an excerpt from […]

Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse 2026-03-16 at 08:24 By Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API. The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by […]

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection 2026-03-16 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Two pieces of dark Dalek drama to stream this April Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises – just not for the consumer class 2026-03-16 at 00:25 By Brandon Vigliarolo Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week’s GTC Kettle  It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – if you’re an AI aficionado, that is, as chip […]

Those who ‘circle back’ and ‘synergize’ also tend to be crap at their jobs 2026-03-15 at 15:12 By Carly Page Cornwell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth Workers who believe “leveraging cross-functional synergies” sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for […]

Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters 2026-03-15 at 14:34 By Dan Robinson Most don’t think they are good for the environment. Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven’t quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.… This article is an […]

Why millions of lovesick people are falling victim to ‘AI psychosis’ 2026-03-15 at 02:59 By News.com.au Jonathan Gavalas, 36, a businessman from Florida, sought comfort through a digital “AI wife.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Meta weighing massive 20% workforce layoffs in effort to offset AI infrastructure costs: report 2026-03-14 at 20:24 By Fox Business Potential layoffs would mark tech giant’s largest restructuring since 2022-2023 rounds that eliminated 21,000 jobs This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source