Updated: 02:10 Fri, Apr 24 2026. (Last checked: 67 mins ago [FAILED!]) |
|---|
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:26:57 GMT)System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general declineClaude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.… |
Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code' - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:38:27 GMT)Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it workedEXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.… |
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:15:12 GMT)Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperateWith more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason these batteries still fail before they can reach widespread commercial use.… |
Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:47:49 GMT)Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothingAnthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.… |
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:25:11 GMT)All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at onceA majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.… |
US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:15:06 GMT)Three vendors matched to three sitesThe US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience if the electricity grid goes down.… |
YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:43:14 GMT)What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?If you follow PC hardware prices, you’ll know AI demand has pushed memory prices higher as manufacturers prioritize memory for datacenters. To deal with that, you can pay through the nose, buy less memory, or ... try to build your own DRAM.… |
Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:13:36 GMT)'Differentiated, but open'Google Cloud Next Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans said that the company holds a structural advantage over its largest rivals in the race to win value from AI agents in the enterprise, arguing that no competitor currently combines cloud computing infrastructure, frontier AI models, and a data platform under one roof.… |
Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:20:07 GMT)Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone onlineProton's boss has waded into the age verification fight with a warning that sounds less like child safety and more like an identity checkpoint for the entire internet.… |
Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:55:14 GMT)Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... handMicrosoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.… |
Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:33:40 GMT)Down to you to work out the valueDatadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon.… |
Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:57:19 GMT)Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptionsThe supply crunch gripping the storage market has pushed Everpure – the artist formerly known as Pure Storage – to reassure customers it won't make things worse.… |
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:57:15 GMT)Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiencesNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule despite repeated attempts by both Donald Trump's first and second administrations to cut funding.… |
American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:26:10 GMT)Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other thingsPalantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to America's farmers.… |
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:59:13 GMT)Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gearThe chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server products.… |
Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:34:49 GMT)World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplaceUpdated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.… |
Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:15:12 GMT)Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versaBlack Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.… |
Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:43:12 GMT)EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own siliconElon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.… |
AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:15:11 GMT)Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracyRise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.… |
If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:45:11 GMT)Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slimGCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.… |
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:15:07 GMT)Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turnBork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.… |
Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:28:12 GMT)Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches laterPWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.… |
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:45:06 GMT)Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lotAI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).… |
Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:08 GMT)NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords failThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.… |
Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:44:41 GMT)Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off KanagawaKubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.… |
Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:34:59 GMT)Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.… |
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:39:44 GMT)Hackpocalypse deferredAnthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.… |
SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:28:25 GMT)New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD.… |
OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:56:58 GMT)Make your model smarter through self-surveillanceThose who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. … |
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:33:09 GMT)Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvementUsers of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.… |
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:55:25 GMT)Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containersThe prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress.… |
Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:10:14 GMT)Happy Earth Day!Datacenter growth in the US is helping keep aging fossil-fuel plants online longer, slowing the shift to a cleaner grid and worsening air pollution, according to new research from a group of environmental nonprofits.… |
Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:40:21 GMT)Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress feesWorkday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for enterprise data movement, according to a new industry benchmark tracking the speeds needed to power analytics, machine learning, and AI agents.… |
Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:06:22 GMT)Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choiceIf you're stuck without access to tech support – say, half way to the Moon – then you're better off with a single install of Thunderbird than any number of Outlooks.… |
You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:29:21 GMT)'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abominationThe Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now.… |
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:13:19 GMT)Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decisionInitial reports have confirmed NASA's assessment that the Orion heat shield kept the Artemis II crew safe during re-entry.… |
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:57:02 GMT)Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue dietGrafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users — though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they shouldn't use it too much.… |
Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:31:07 GMT)Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping batteryFramework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, has spruced its line-up with a completely redesigned 13-inch model sporting the latest Intel CPUs, new components for its 16-inch system, and a dock that lets users add devices like a desktop graphics card.… |
Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:03:32 GMT)As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the wayGoogle Cloud Next Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape, rebranding and expanding its Vertex AI developer platform into what it now calls the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.… |
Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:01:43 GMT)Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaosGoogle Cloud Next Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."… |
Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:07 GMT)x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion coresGoogle Cloud Next Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs.… |
France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:09 GMT)Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the populationFrance's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.… |
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:14:33 GMT)Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights lawsLondon's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.… |
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:08:04 GMT)Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on AzureA UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft's objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for trial.… |
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:08 GMT)Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoptionOver the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query language SQL.… |
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:15:10 GMT)Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creatorsOne in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.… |
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:30:11 GMT)Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investmentA day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.… |
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:32:11 GMT)Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of securityThe Mozilla has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.… |
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:54:02 GMT)Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AIMeta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.… |
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:16:57 GMT)Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyoneAnthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.… |
