Tech

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92 (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11

How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-11

Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (www.trendforce.com)
2026-3-11 Retail

Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data (it.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Intel

Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one firm and infuse it with new tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-11

New ‘BlackSanta' EDR killer spotted targeting HR departments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11

Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11 AI

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Amazon AI

Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-11 Senate

Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-3-11 Robot

After backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-11

Internal doc: the State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, following Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts (www.nextgov.com)
2026-3-11 Trump chatbot

Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-11 Microsoft

New BeatBanker Android malware poses as Starlink app to hijack devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11 Android

Silicon Valley Is Buzzing About This New Idea: AI Compute As Compensation (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 AI

Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; it was previously only available on the app for One Medical (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Amazon AI

Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise about $10B; it raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had more than $40B in AUM as of last summer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-11

Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M (fortune.com)
2026-3-11 AI

Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, vs. $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% to $8.9B, vs. $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 6%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-11 Oracle

AT&T Outlines $250 Billion US Investment Plan To Boost Infrastructure In AI Age (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 AI AT&T

New 'Zombie ZIP' technique lets malware slip past security tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11

MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-3-11 YouTube

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-3-11

OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Oracle

Ig Nobels Ceremony Moves To Europe Indefinitely, Citing US Safety Concerns (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Europe

Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (www.axios.com)
2026-3-11

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5078885 extended security update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11 Microsoft

McAfee Total Protection is 85% off for a limited time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-11

Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-11 Oracle

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