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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 - | 44

6 minutes ago

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

7 days ago

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

1 day ago

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments -- Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'

1 day ago

Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack -- Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

1 hour ago

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date -- NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail

15 hours 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

7 hours 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

3 hours ago

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

5 hours 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

6 hours ago

Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art -- Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa

2 hours ago

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

1 hour ago

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

4 hours 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?

6 hours 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

4 hours 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

4 hours 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

2 hours 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

4 hours 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

4 hours 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

5 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

5 hours ago

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

5 hours ago

Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party - Grafanacon - We gotta get boring to get graduated - Software - 24 Apr 2026 - | 1

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

7 hours 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

8 hours 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

9 hours ago

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

9 hours 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 - | 2

6 hours ago

Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack - PWNED - Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

4 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

9 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

11 hours 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

12 hours 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

12 hours 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

14 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

14 hours ago

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

16 hours 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

21 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

16 hours 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

1 day ago

Cisco Scales Out Quantum Systems With A Quantum Network Switch

1 day ago

Stop Measuring AI Training Costs In GPU Hours

1 day ago

The Second Time Will Be The IPO Charm For Cerebras

2 days ago

Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response

3 days ago

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

4 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors - Google Cloud Next - 'Differentiated, but open' AI + ML - 23 Apr 2026 - | 3

10 hours ago

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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

3 days ago

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

7 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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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 - |

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

2 days ago

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

5 hours ago

Commvault cosies up to Google's Cloud

5 hours ago

Storage news ticker - 24 April 2024

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Kioxia announces second and faster slablet SSD in three days

11 hours 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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 - 23 Apr 2026 - | 5

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Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it -- Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot -- AI + ML

1 day ago

SK Hynix's aspirations for 'Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality -- New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028 -- Systems

2 days ago

OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot -- Make your model smarter through self-surveillance -- AI + ML

2 days ago

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not -- Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement -- Devops

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

28 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

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

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor -- Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US -- Happy Earth Day! -- Systems

2 days ago

Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran -- Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees -- SaaS

2 days ago

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive -- Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice -- Applications

2 days ago

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too -- 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination -- OSes

2 days ago

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision -- Science

2 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad - Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet - Devops - 22 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature

3 days ago

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 - Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery - Personal Tech - 22 Apr 2026 - | 24

11 hours ago

Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies -- Security

1 day ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win -- AI + ML

1 day ago

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records -- Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security

2 days ago

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial -- Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs -- Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption -- Databases

2 days ago

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn't spot -- Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security -- Software

2 days ago

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI -- AI + ML

2 days ago