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Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Opinion - Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

1 day ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access - Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

1 day 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

16 days ago

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them -- Episode 7 -- How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?

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Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job -- On Call -- The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

1 day ago

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight -- Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user - Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode - Personal Tech - 12 Apr 2026 - | 21

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How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk -- Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents -- SaaS

19 hours ago

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise -- Time to start dropping SBOMs -- Security

19 hours ago

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard' -- Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts -- Security

1 day ago

Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access -- With access to great data comes great responsibility -- SaaS

1 day ago

Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown -- Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they're coming back! -- Science

1 day ago

Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India -- Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing -- OSes

1 day ago

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla -- Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh -- Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint -- Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - Updated - To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want

2 days ago

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working -- Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Opinion - Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities - Security - 10 Apr 2026 - | 15

11 hours ago

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers -- Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime -- Security

2 days ago

BOFH - : If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them - Episode 7 - How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data? BOFH - 10 Apr 2026 - | 68

2 hours ago

Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch -- Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry -- Databases

2 days ago

Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up -- Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - On Call - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job - Columnists - 10 Apr 2026 - | 124

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AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity -- Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania -- Systems

2 days ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they'll wake up slowly -- Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find -- Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures -- AI + ML

2 days ago

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

1 day ago

CoreWeave Takes As Much Financial Engineering As It Does Datacenter Design

2 days ago

Contemplating Meta's Homegrown MTIA Compute Engine Roadmap

3 days ago

Most Neoclouds, Sovereigns, And Enterprises Will Buy, Not Build, Their AI Stacks

4 days ago

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions - The core product is solid and priced fairly

1 day ago

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch -- Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs - Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel - PaaS + IaaS - 09 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case -- Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate -- C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home -- CxO

2 days ago

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them -- Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered -- AI + ML

2 days ago

'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree -- Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement -- FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

8 days ago

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover

10 days ago

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

11 days ago

Contracts are in C++26 despite disquiet over their value

11 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

2 days ago

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller - ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize - Software - 09 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge -- Exclusive -- Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything -- Virtualization

2 days ago

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare -- UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline -- Security -- 09 Apr 2026

2 days ago

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape -- Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets -- Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload -- Cyber-crime

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

2 days ago

SK Hynix shipping 321-layer SSD for Dell's AI PC

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Everpure says TurboQuant turns KV cache into a storage problem

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Lenovo closes Infinidat acquisition to boost enterprise storage

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Storage news ticker – April 9

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Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market -- Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse -- Wash your mouth out with digital soap -- Security

3 days ago

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off -- Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools -- Software

3 days ago

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment -- Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns -- DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data -- As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough -- Public Sector

3 days ago

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown -- Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action -- Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings -- Applications

3 days ago

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors - PWNED - Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days - Security - 09 Apr 2026 - | 65

11 hours ago

Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter -- The time is maybe -- Security

3 days ago

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school -- You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them! -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix -- South Korea's biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster -- Virtualization

3 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

Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era -- Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief - interview - If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back - Security - 08 Apr 2026 - | 7

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DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive -- Science

3 days ago

Call your existing automation 'zero-token architecture' to become an instant agentic AI wiz -- Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that's trying to hide deep tech -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers -- To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want

3 days ago

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads -- Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access -- Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

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AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update -- 'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket

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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos -- Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way

4 days ago

Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak -- Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO

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Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks -- Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens?

4 days ago

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI' -- Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

3 days ago

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions -- The core product is solid and priced fairly

2 days ago

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process -- No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

2 days ago

Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges -- China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say -- Systems

3 days ago

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets -- BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say - Updated - Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform - SaaS - 08 Apr 2026 - | 10

3 days ago

How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era - Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage - Webinar Promo

4 days ago

Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol -- MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework -- Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library -- Software

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Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations - Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers - Systems - 08 Apr 2026 - |

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Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do - Bork!Bork!Bork! Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn't - Offbeat - 08 Apr 2026 - | 33

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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack -- ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioning -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed -- Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand -- On-Prem

4 days ago

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B -- Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform -- Databases

4 days ago

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams -- Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised -- Security

4 days ago

Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser -- Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic online -- Offbeat

4 days ago

UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle -- Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones -- President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war -- On-Prem

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