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Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal -- UPDATED -- Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing

1 hour ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching -- On Call -- All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside

1 hour ago

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say - Bug or feature?

1 hour ago

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

6 hours ago

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 -- Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

2 hours ago

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack - Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list - Security - 17 Apr 2026 - |

39 minutes ago

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker -- Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse -- Security

1 hour ago

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems -- We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit -- PaaS + IaaS

2 hours ago

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades -- Starts new one on boot loops -- PaaS + IaaS

5 hours ago

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms -- Science

5 hours ago

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech

6 hours ago

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech

7 hours ago

Would you like fries with that terminal? Bork!Bork!Bork! Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't - Offbeat - 17 Apr 2026 - | 11

1 hour ago

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector

8 hours ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - On Call - All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside - Networks - 17 Apr 2026 - | 54

39 minutes ago

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure -- Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups -- Networks

11 hours ago

Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo - Command prefix will require password by default

19 hours ago

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day -- Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory -- Networks

12 hours ago

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google -- We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer -- Networks

15 hours ago

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers -- Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware's perpetual price hikes -- 'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. -- Virtualization

20 hours ago

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban -- If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard -- Public Sector

22 hours ago

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist -- Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' -- Cyber-crime

22 hours ago

If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID -- Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses -- Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims -- Databases

1 day ago

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband -- Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes -- Networks

1 day ago

Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time

2 hours ago

How HPC And AI Digital Twins Accelerate Quantum Error Correction

2 hours ago

The Embrace Of AI In Design Transforms Cadence And Its Customers

1 day ago

Nvidia Brings The Power Of Open Source AI Models To Quantum Computing

3 days ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it - Who, Me? Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

2 days ago

Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam -- Legal

1 day ago

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews -- Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned -- When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on... -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue -- Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs -- Software

1 day ago

Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod -- Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed -- Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine -- Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems -- Edge + IoT

1 day ago

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

4 hours ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

1 day ago

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

1 day ago

Claude Code cache confusion as Anthropic tweaks defaults, but quotas still drain

2 days ago

A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG - What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware. Partner Content

1 day ago

Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall - Bork!Bork!Bork! Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start - Offbeat - 16 Apr 2026 - | 20

9 hours ago

Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive -- Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget -- Public Sector

1 day ago

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant

1 day ago

Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan -- Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October

1 day ago

Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era - Cut through the noise and understand the real risks, responsibilities, and responses shaping enterprise AI today. Webinar Promo

7 days ago

Storage news ticker – April 17

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NetApp enters air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud

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Panmnesia's two unification efforts; PCIe/CXL and UAL/Ethernet

1 day ago

Myota appoints CISO as it touts shard-based data protection

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Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment -- Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices -- Legal

1 day ago

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time -- 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits -- Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance -- AI + ML

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Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top - OPINION - Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea - AI + ML - 15 Apr 2026 - | 22

22 hours ago

Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students -- Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption - Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider - Cyber-crime - 15 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms -- Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around -- Networks

2 days ago

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many - Bork!Bork!Bork! We've all been there - Offbeat - 15 Apr 2026 - | 30

6 hours 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

21 days 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal -- Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title -- Security

2 days ago

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally -- Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work -- Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks -- Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list -- Patches

2 days ago

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found -- Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery

20 hours ago

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online -- Browser fingerprinting is everywhere

1 day ago

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal -- Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing

4 hours ago

Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy -- Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash

5 hours ago

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say -- Bug or feature?

5 hours ago

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager -- Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

1 day ago

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 -- Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

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Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP -- No reports of active exploitation (yet)

18 hours ago

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock -- Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers

4 hours ago

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds? -- Science

2 days ago

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk -- Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges -- Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade -- Science

2 days ago

How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy - Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer - Sponsored Post

8 days ago

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London -- Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel -- Offbeat

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Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users -- Exclusive -- Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive -- Security

2 days ago

Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless -- Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work -- Systems

2 days ago

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out -- Opinion -- The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt -- Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering -- Offbeat

2 days ago

AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop -- Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away -- Systems

2 days ago

Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs -- Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents -- The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data. -- Security

2 days ago

Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs -- One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more -- Patches

2 days ago

You can finally control serial devices from Firefox -- Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla -- OSes

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Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing – it's AI! -- One error in every thousand operations is one too many -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going -- With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional -- Systems

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