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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 - 16 Apr 2026 - |

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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 -- Networks

10 hours ago

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

11 hours ago

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

8 hours 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

2 hours ago

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

3 hours ago

Microsoft announces product it doesn't want you to buy: Extended security updates for old Exchange, and Skype for Biz -- Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash

2 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 hour ago

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

1 hour 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

2 hours 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

3 hours ago

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

3 hours 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

3 hours 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

5 hours 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

5 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

Microsoft announces product it doesn't want you to buy: Extended security updates for old Exchange, and Skype for Biz -- Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash -- Security

7 hours 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 - | 13

1 hour ago

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude - Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints

1 day 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

8 hours ago

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock - PWNED - Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers - Security - 16 Apr 2026 - | 69

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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

13 hours ago

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

17 hours ago

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

1 hour 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

20 hours 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

21 hours ago

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 - | 19

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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) -- Patches

1 day ago

The Embrace Of AI In Design Transforms Cadence And Its Customers

3 hours ago

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

2 days ago

Building The Imperfect Beast

2 days ago

For Enterprises, GPUs Need Virtualization As Much As CPUs Ever Did

5 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

1 day 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 -- OSes

1 day 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

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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 - |

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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

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Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many - Bork!Bork!Bork! We've all been there - Offbeat - 15 Apr 2026 - | 28

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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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

6 hours ago

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

8 hours ago

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

1 day ago

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

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

3 hours 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

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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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

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Myota appoints CISO as it touts shard-based data protection

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Isle of Man wants to turn datasets into balance-sheet assets

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Pinecone claims up to 97% lower costs with dedicated read nodes

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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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

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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

2 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

20 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

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

2 months ago

California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says -- Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files -- Legal

2 days ago

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs -- Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks -- Devops

2 days ago

Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting -- Science

2 days ago

Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow -- Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP -- Networks

2 days ago

No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit -- Honey, the skids are fighting again -- Cyber-crime

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NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats - exclusive - Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage - Science - 14 Apr 2026 - | 10

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IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz -- Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases -- Legal

2 days 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

6 days ago

Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout -- Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder -- 20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future -- Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s -- Systems

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Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket -- Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 -- Software

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UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program -- Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years -- Public Sector

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When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now - Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold - Systems - 14 Apr 2026 - |

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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs - Opinion - Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently - OSes - 14 Apr 2026 - | 133

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Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered -- Science

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Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships -- Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA -- AI + ML

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Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum - Patches - 13 Apr 2026 - | 6

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Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet -- What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? -- Devops

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How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough -- 'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us -- SaaS

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