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Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now -- Keep the patches away for as long as you like

2 hours ago

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet - Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew

2 hours ago

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team

2 hours ago

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense -- The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

10 hours ago

Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools - Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump - Cyber-crime - 27 Apr 2026 - |

17 minutes ago

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database -- Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown -- After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck -- Public Sector

2 hours ago

The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific -- They were doing it in Texas... -- Systems

5 hours ago

Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins -- Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations -- Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use? -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again -- No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend -- Offbeat

7 hours ago

AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games -- Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space -- Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand -- On-Prem

7 hours ago

Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official -- No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months - Updated - Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team - Science - 27 Apr 2026 - | 16

48 minutes ago

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle -- Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors -- Public Sector

2 hours ago

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger - Hackpocalypse deferred

3 days ago

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet -- Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew -- Security

11 hours ago

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt -- Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records -- Cyber-crime

12 hours ago

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now -- Keep the patches away for as long as you like -- OSes

12 hours ago

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day -- Offbeat

13 hours ago

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds -- UK's data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs -- Public Sector

12 hours ago

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot -- Microsoft Copilot now heading into 'Official Sensitive' work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial -- Public Sector

12 hours ago

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- Opinion -- AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that -- Security

15 hours ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch -- Who, Me? -- There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs -- Personal Tech

16 hours ago

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now -- KETTLE -- Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos -- PaaS + IaaS

23 hours ago

Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy - Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits - AI + ML - 26 Apr 2026 - | 17

6 hours ago

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense -- opinion -- The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance -- OSes

1 day ago

AI-Driven CPU Shortage Saves Intel's Financial Cookies

2 hours ago

The GenAI Battle Shifts From Frontier Models To Agentic Platforms

2 hours ago

With TPU 8, Google Makes GenAI Systems Much Better, Not Just Bigger

3 days ago

Cisco Scales Out Quantum Systems With A Quantum Network Switch

4 days ago

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs - Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

8 hours ago

AI's not going to kill open source code security - Opinion - Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way - Security - 26 Apr 2026 - | 20

6 hours ago

Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work -- AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data -- Coming in cold with custom Snow malware -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps -- New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads -- OSes

3 days ago

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs -- What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? -- Public Sector

3 days ago

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit -- Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere -- Networks

3 days ago

ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface -- Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

4 days ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

5 days ago

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

6 days ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

10 days ago

It's time to make agentic automation scalable - Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits - Sponsored Post

15 hours ago

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network -- Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop -- One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers -- OSes

3 days ago

OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party - Grafanacon - We gotta get boring to get graduated - Software - 24 Apr 2026 - | 4

5 hours ago

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave -- Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk -- Software

3 days ago

Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table -- Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips -- Security

3 days ago

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse -- Systems

3 days ago

Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours - Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget - Partner Content

4 days ago

WD and multi-tiered disk drive arrays

9 hours ago

NEO Semiconductor's POC says 3D DRAM is good to go

9 hours ago

VDURA CEO sees the end of the all-flash array era

3 days ago

Commvault cosies up to Google's Cloud

3 days ago

Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages -- Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives -- Applications

3 days ago

It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well - Black Hat Asia - OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs - Security - 24 Apr 2026 - | 10

15 hours ago

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami -- Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don't quite add up -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

BOFH - : Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges - Episode 8 - Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet? BOFH - 24 Apr 2026 - | 68

7 hours ago

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos -- Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border -- Security

3 days ago

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room -- Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists -- Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice -- Software

3 days ago

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - On Call - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials? Networks - 24 Apr 2026 - | 120

5 hours ago

Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years -- Black Hat Asia -- FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us today -- Research

3 days ago

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers -- Black Hat Asia -- Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere -- Security

3 days ago

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter - System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline - AI + ML - 23 Apr 2026 - | 24

10 hours ago

Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code' -- EXCLUSIVE -- Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it worked -- Security

4 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

10 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

1 month ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

2 months ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

2 months ago

Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate -- Science

4 days ago

Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain -- Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn -- All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once -- Security

4 days ago

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes -- Three vendors matched to three sites -- Public Sector

4 days ago

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard -- What are you doing to solve the memory crisis? -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors - Google Cloud Next - 'Differentiated, but open' AI + ML - 23 Apr 2026 - | 4

1 day ago

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO -- Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone online -- Security

4 days ago

Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure - Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure - Partner Content

5 days ago

Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn't ask for -- Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand -- Applications

4 days ago

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar -- Down to you to work out the value -- Software

4 days ago

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions - Storage - 23 Apr 2026 - |

4 days ago

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences -- Science

4 days ago

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir -- Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things -- Public Sector

4 days ago

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear -- Systems

4 days ago

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals -- Updated -- World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you're not paying enough attention to either -- Black Hat Asia -- Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa -- Applications

4 days ago

Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon -- Systems

4 days ago

AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues -- Rise of the Machines -- Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy -- AI + ML

4 days ago

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you -- Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim -- Security

4 days ago

Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn -- Offbeat

4 days ago