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SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:41:13 GMT)Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systemsAn influential SAP user group has criticized the vendor's API policy update, saying it lacks clarity and potentially prevents users from starting new projects and innovating on their SAP platforms.… |
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:12 GMT)But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans.… |
Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:20:12 GMT)AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for themAnthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users.… |
Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:35:10 GMT)Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.… |
What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:08 GMT)Just in time for the Trump-Xi summitExclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.… |
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:14:07 GMT)Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affectedEmergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.… |
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:29:10 GMT)Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ copsLondon cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers.… |
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:45:12 GMT)Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselvesBritain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.… |
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:12 GMT)Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protectionPWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.… |
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:59:19 GMT)Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key managementMicrosoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.… |
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:49:05 GMT)AI is driving more searches and adsGoogle Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.… |
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:15:56 GMT)Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demandIf you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.… |
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:01:50 GMT)Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalationDevelopers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.… |
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:47:45 GMT)The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.… |
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:11:05 GMT)ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strengthGPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.… |
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:07 GMT)Second try's a charm?Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.… |
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:35:11 GMT)Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's securityMicrosoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.… |
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:05:14 GMT)Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more infoDatabricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.… |
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:38:43 GMT)New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, tooFedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.… |
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:05:55 GMT)Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk aboutThe first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.… |
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:00:18 GMT)There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there wasUnlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such championship exists.… |
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:10:12 GMT)Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nestNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.… |
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:35:04 GMT)GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enoughThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), about a new vulnerability that attackers can use to snoop on sensitive information.… |
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:55:09 GMT)Eleven up, ten downOn Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business.… |
GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:02:16 GMT)Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative awardWiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of a high-severity flaw in GitHub's git infrastructure that handed remote attackers full read/write access to private GitHub repositories using a single command.… |
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:51:27 GMT)No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developersInterview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team — StoreGen — exists to help the retail giant's developers move faster and cut friction. But despite the AI mandate, one principle is non-negotiable: nothing ships without a human checking it first.… |
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:13:55 GMT)Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notesAntiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.… |
EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:03:22 GMT)'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.… |
GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:22 GMT)After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slideMicrosoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."… |
GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:09 GMT)32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affectedGoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.… |
AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:14 GMT)Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIsSAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from customers' SAP data.… |
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:30:10 GMT)Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the showBORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.… |
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:32:14 GMT)Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClawThirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.… |
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:46:20 GMT)Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhereHashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.… |
Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’ - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:15:26 GMT)Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our speciesYour next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.… |
The future of software development: Now with less software development - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:00:29 GMT)At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AIMore than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.… |
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:58:58 GMT)No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights onClose on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.… |
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:46:57 GMT)PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the roleThe US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. … |
OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:21:50 GMT)Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near youOpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.… |
Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:36:31 GMT)'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.… |
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:10:21 GMT)DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projectsAs the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.… |
Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:51:08 GMT)Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinksIf you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.… |
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:18:47 GMT)80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flagsIBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.… |
Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:06:59 GMT)Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise marketAmazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.… |
Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:07 GMT)Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dumpUpdated Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.… |
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:30:10 GMT)That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashedNASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.… |
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:07 GMT)RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassisTenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.… |
Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:12 GMT)DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as GeminiThose pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.… |
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:24:53 GMT)£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to liveLater today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.… |
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:14:28 GMT)Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories growTwo men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.… |
