Monthly Archives: March, 2026

Update: Story updated with a statement from Stryker confirming they suffered a disruptive cyberattack. Leading medical technology company Stryker has been hit by a wiper malware attack claimed by Handala, an Iranian-linked and pro-Palestinian hacktivist group. The medtech giant manufactures a range of products, including surgical and neurotechnology equipment. With over 53,000 employees, Stryker is

Image: Canva Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports on Canva’s Magic Layers, an AI-powered tool that transforms static JPEG and PNG images into fully editable templates by separating elements into distinct layers. This technology reverses traditional image flattening by isolating subjects and text overlays, allowing users to modify previously uneditable images.

Card giant offers SMEs a virtual chief financial officer through artificial intelligence technology, with other C-suite roles to follow By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 11 Mar 2026 16:45 Mastercard is introducing a virtual chief financial officer (CFO), which will be the first of a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) executives

The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise agent platform launched just a month ago. When Ian Webster was leading the LLM engineering team at Discord

Plus: a satellite firm that exposed Iranian strikes has stopped sharing imagery This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense

BYD showcased the new platform during its Disruptive Technology event on Thursday. According to the automaker, the Flash charger is able to take the battery from 10% to 70% in just five minutes and from 10% to 97% in only nine minutes when at room temperature...

William - stock.adobe.com High street giant will increase proportion of total staff that work in technology and data By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 06 Mar 2026 16:15 Lloyds Banking Group plans to slash technology costs by hundreds of millions of pounds by 2028, and sell more anonymised customer data to

Plus: Anthropic is still chasing a deal with the Pentagon. This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to