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Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party Two more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains....

Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon....

Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they're doing, and shut them down if need be....

Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday....

Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes Sometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental health issues....

The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect....

Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia's new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year....

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine....

Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses....

Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW Ohio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US....

Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating Microsoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart....

What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out....

Good luck with that The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers....

Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffle Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial....

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM XForce and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information....

Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review QCon London AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week....

Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now Microsoft has paused plans to force the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on users, halting automatic installations for an unspecified period....

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend 17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet....

Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers....

Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable Samsung is killing the Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market....

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 experiment with computers that don't use binary....

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 the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA)....

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....

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....

'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 because their penchant to prioritize popularity over quality leaves room for others to sell improvements or repairs....

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 cope with AI slop bug reports....

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....

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 Tuesday....

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 it will be used to identify the human behind bots....

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 AWS is actively encouraging them to do - need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later....

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 agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language....

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 to operate above the Earth's atmosphere....

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid' GTC 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, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation....

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....

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 return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April....

Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python....

Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031 Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market....

Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2....

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information Iran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours....

Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it... as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format....

SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work - to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale....

A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day For decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip - and at last science may have produced an answer....

MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead Britain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them....

Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020....

Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft's AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft's Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output....

AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes Australia's Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade....

Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess interview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content....

'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff Here today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old....

The latest generation of Nvidia's AI image enhancer brings characters to life GTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes,saran-wrap-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they're stepped out of a movie screen - and we're not talking about a Pixar movie either....

'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO gtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine....