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Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:31 GMT)No reports of active exploitation (yet)Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.… |
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:55 GMT)Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finishedNo one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.… |
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:46:12 GMT)Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training dataNew research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.… |
Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:18 GMT)Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the providerAutovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.… |
Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:40:11 GMT)Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves aroundAI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.… |
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:21 GMT)We've all been thereBork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.… |
French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:29:08 GMT)Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate titleA mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.… |
US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:35:09 GMT)Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidiesMany US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.… |
Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:16:22 GMT)Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platformSalesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.… |
Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:46:05 GMT)Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited listWhile Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.… |
Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:35:48 GMT)Command prefix will require password by defaultThe latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.… |
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:18 GMT)Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.… |
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposedBritain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.… |
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decadeBrit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.… |
Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:45:07 GMT)Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheelWaymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.… |
Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:13 GMT)Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasiveExclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.… |
Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:27:12 GMT)Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it workA startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.… |
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:03:08 GMT)The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson thinkOpinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?… |
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:59:12 GMT)Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputteringBoeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.… |
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:55 GMT)Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go awayMost mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.… |
Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:40:49 GMT)Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude appAnthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.… |
Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:57:07 GMT)The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data.Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.… |
Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:28 GMT)One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 moreAttackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.… |
You can finally control serial devices from Firefox - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:21:20 GMT)Long languishing API gets love from MozillaFirefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.… |
Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing – it's AI! - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:58:24 GMT)One error in every thousand operations is one too manyQuantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. … |
Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:57:12 GMT)With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optionalBloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.… |
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:25:36 GMT)Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print filesCalifornia's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue.… |
GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:03:19 GMT)Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunksGitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.… |
Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:06:30 GMT)Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy liftingEvery now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look.… |
Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:58:18 GMT)Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IPAmazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk's Starlink. … |
No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:56:13 GMT)Honey, the skids are fighting againTwo rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit.… |
NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:45:54 GMT)Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damageexclusive As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect.… |
IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:14:09 GMT)Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination casesIBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination.… |
Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:31:14 GMT)Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in USMicrosoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.… |
Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:50:12 GMT)20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office buildingThe man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.… |
Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:26:13 GMT)Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030sThe British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).… |
Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:43:08 GMT)Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.… |
UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:01:14 GMT)Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 yearsThe UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.… |
When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:30:15 GMT)Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese footholdWhen IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved.… |
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:06 GMT)Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequentlyOpinion It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.… |
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:07:54 GMT)Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that matteredJapan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.… |
Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships - (pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:05:13 GMT)Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USAArtificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships.… |
Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:35:36 GMT)One was patched almost 14 years agoCrooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.… |
Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:59:15 GMT)What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.… |
Claude is getting worse, according to Claude - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:35:09 GMT)Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaintsOnce the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.… |
How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:05:02 GMT)'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told usServiceNow's latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.… |
Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:48:44 GMT)Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificateImagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.… |
Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:12:09 GMT)GG noob, who cleared you to land?The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. … |
WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:36:39 GMT)Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewalsOracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.… |
Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:14:49 GMT)Dev reports suggest long sessions now burn through usage much fasterAnthropic last month reduced the TTL (time to live) for the Claude Code prompt cache from one hour to five minutes for many requests, but said this should not increase costs despite users reporting faster depleting quotas.… |
