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Tempo debuts Mainnet, protocol for machine payments
Disaster Recovery

Tempo debuts Mainnet, protocol for machine payments

Tempo launches Mainnet and unveils Machine Payments Protocol to automate stablecoin and card payments between AI agents and online services.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • Fri, 20th Mar 2026
Chainguard unveils free starter pack for secure images
Virtualisation

Chainguard unveils free starter pack for secure images

Chainguard launches a free Catalog Starter pack, giving developers five production-grade secure container images from its vast library.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 20th Mar 2026
JFrog unveils MCP registry to secure AI coding agents
DevOps

JFrog unveils MCP registry to secure AI coding agents

JFrog launches an MCP registry to centralise and secure AI coding agents, extending software supply chain controls to agent workflows.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Fake Windsurf extension uses Solana to steal dev data
Blockchain

Fake Windsurf extension uses Solana to steal dev data

Malicious fake Windsurf IDE extension hid JavaScript, abused Solana to fetch payloads, and stole developers' browser credentials and tokens.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
TrendAI & Nvidia boost security for agentic AI tools
Cloud Security

TrendAI & Nvidia boost security for agentic AI tools

TrendAI and Nvidia deepen collaboration to embed layered security and governance into OpenShell, protecting long-lived autonomous AI agents.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Barracuda warns of surge in credential-focused attacks
Malware

Barracuda warns of surge in credential-focused attacks

Barracuda reports a global surge in identity-based cyber attacks, with stolen credentials, supply-chain abuse and weaponised PDFs on the rise.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Spacelift unveils AI suite to speed cloud infrastructure
DevOps

Spacelift unveils AI suite to speed cloud infrastructure

Spacelift launches Intelligence AI suite to bring natural language provisioning and troubleshooting to cloud infrastructure teams.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Spacelift unveils AI layer to speed cloud infrastructure
Virtualisation

Spacelift unveils AI layer to speed cloud infrastructure

Spacelift debuts an AI-powered natural-language layer to accelerate cloud infrastructure work while preserving existing IaC and GitOps flows.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Secure Code Warrior unveils AI code governance tool
Application Security

Secure Code Warrior unveils AI code governance tool

Secure Code Warrior launches SCW Trust Agent: AI, giving security teams commit-level visibility and control over AI-influenced code.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Harness unveils AI Security & coding tools for DevSecOps
DevOps

Harness unveils AI Security & coding tools for DevSecOps

Harness has launched AI Security and Secure AI Coding tools to spot and block vulnerabilities in AI-powered apps and AI-generated code.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Robinhood fund buys into Stripe, AI start-up ElevenLabs
Fintech

Robinhood fund buys into Stripe, AI start-up ElevenLabs

Robinhood Ventures Fund I adds Stripe and ElevenLabs stakes to give retail investors listed access to late-stage private tech firms.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
1Password debuts Unified Access to secure AI agents
Data Protection

1Password debuts Unified Access to secure AI agents

1Password unveils Unified Access to secure AI agents and machine credentials, promising endpoint-to-agent visibility for security teams.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
LeakNet adopts ClickFix lures & Deno fileless loader
Storage

LeakNet adopts ClickFix lures & Deno fileless loader

Ransomware group LeakNet adopts ClickFix lures and a Deno-based fileless loader to scale attacks and evade traditional endpoint defences.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Secure Code Warrior unveils AI tool to govern code risk
Data Protection

Secure Code Warrior unveils AI tool to govern code risk

Secure Code Warrior launches SCW Trust Agent: AI to trace, rate and police AI-generated code risks directly at developers' commit point.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
Milestone boosts Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS & VLMs
Smart Cities

Milestone boosts Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS & VLMs

Milestone expands Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS and VLMs to speed smart city vision AI training and cut bias in rare-event modelling.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
MSI unveils XpertStation WS300 for deskside AI power
Hyperscale

MSI unveils XpertStation WS300 for deskside AI power

MSI's XpertStation WS300 brings Nvidia Grace Blackwell AI supercomputing to the desk, targeting trillion-parameter models off-cloud.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Multiverse launches CompactifAI portal for LLM ops
DevOps

Multiverse launches CompactifAI portal for LLM ops

Multiverse launches CompactifAI API portal, giving dev and ops teams self-serve access to compressed LLMs with tighter control and insight.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 20th Mar 2026
Backslash adds cross-tool governance for AI coding Skills
Cloud Security

Backslash adds cross-tool governance for AI coding Skills

Backslash adds cross-tool governance to discover, vet and monitor 'Skills' powering AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude Code and Copilot.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026