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North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:12 GMT)Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.… |
If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:59 GMT)Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on RedditAnthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.… |
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:15:32 GMT)Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claimsThe team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.… |
Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:49:11 GMT)Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikesNorth America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.… |
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:13:37 GMT)Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scamTwo Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.… |
Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:37:06 GMT)Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps upBrussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.… |
Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:17:27 GMT)When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.… |
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:24 GMT)Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEsVisual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.… |
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:57:22 GMT)Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainerSecurity boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.… |
Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:49:35 GMT)Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked dataTextbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.… |
Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:45:11 GMT)Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systemsThe UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.… |
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want you to buy: Extended security updates for old Exchange, and Skype for Biz - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:01:08 GMT)Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cashMicrosoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.… |
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:15:07 GMT)Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles startBork!Bork!Bork! Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.… |
Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:30:11 GMT)Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budgetUK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over budget.… |
Server-room lock was nothing but a crock - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:00:10 GMT)Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the serversPWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week’s story is for you.… |
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:30:15 GMT)Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephantWhile Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I have closely followed its development.… |
Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:33:54 GMT)Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in OctoberSome Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.… |
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:45:04 GMT)Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practicesPolice in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.… |
Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:28:39 GMT)Browser fingerprinting is everywhereGoogle markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.… |
Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:33:35 GMT)Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mysteryLast week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?… |
Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:07:21 GMT)'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advisePeople ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.… |
Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:25:58 GMT)Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowanceMicrosoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.… |
Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:06:13 GMT)Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced TeaOPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.… |
Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:31 GMT)No reports of active exploitation (yet)Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.… |
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:55 GMT)Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finishedNo one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.… |
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:46:12 GMT)Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training dataNew research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.… |
Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:18 GMT)Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the providerAutovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.… |
Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:40:11 GMT)Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves aroundAI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.… |
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:21 GMT)We've all been thereBork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.… |
French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:29:08 GMT)Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate titleA mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.… |
US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:35:09 GMT)Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidiesMany US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.… |
Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:16:22 GMT)Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platformSalesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.… |
Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:46:05 GMT)Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited listWhile Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.… |
Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:35:48 GMT)Command prefix will require password by defaultThe latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.… |
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:18 GMT)Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.… |
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposedBritain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.… |
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decadeBrit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.… |
Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:45:07 GMT)Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheelWaymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.… |
Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:13 GMT)Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasiveExclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.… |
Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:27:12 GMT)Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it workA startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.… |
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:03:08 GMT)The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson thinkOpinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?… |
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:59:12 GMT)Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputteringBoeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.… |
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:55 GMT)Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go awayMost mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.… |
Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:40:49 GMT)Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude appAnthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.… |
Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:57:07 GMT)The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data.Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.… |
Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:28 GMT)One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 moreAttackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.… |
You can finally control serial devices from Firefox - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:21:20 GMT)Long languishing API gets love from MozillaFirefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.… |
Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing – it's AI! - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:58:24 GMT)One error in every thousand operations is one too manyQuantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. … |
Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:57:12 GMT)With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optionalBloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.… |
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:25:36 GMT)Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print filesCalifornia's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue.… |
