Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Bork!Bork!Bork! Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch Who, Me? There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI + ML28 Apr 2026 |
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions Legal28 Apr 2026 | 10
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 10
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump Cyber-crime27 Apr 2026 |
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding AI + ML27 Apr 2026 | 12
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 6
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific They were doing it in Texas... Systems27 Apr 2026 | 2
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Cyber-crime27 Apr 2026 | 1
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use? AI + ML27 Apr 2026 | 10
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend Offbeat27 Apr 2026 | 27
AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents AI + ML27 Apr 2026 | 12
Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand On-Prem27 Apr 2026 | 25
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger Hackpocalypse deferred
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds AI + ML27 Apr 2026 | 5
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Updated Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team Science27 Apr 2026 | 18
Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 30
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Security27 Apr 2026 | 14
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records Cyber-crime27 Apr 2026 | 7
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now Keep the patches away for as long as you like OSes27 Apr 2026 | 34
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Bork!Bork!Bork! Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day Offbeat27 Apr 2026 | 24
ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 7
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial Public Sector27 Apr 2026 | 28
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now Opinion AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that Security27 Apr 2026 | 17
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch Who, Me? There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs Personal Tech27 Apr 2026 | 66
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now KETTLE Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2026 | 5
Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits AI + ML26 Apr 2026 | 17
Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense opinion The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance OSes26 Apr 2026 | 52
AI's not going to kill open source code security Opinion Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Security26 Apr 2026 | 23
Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology AI + ML25 Apr 2026 | 29
Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data Coming in cold with custom Snow malware Cyber-crime25 Apr 2026 | 4
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 OSes24 Apr 2026 | 55
It's time to make agentic automation scalable Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits Sponsored Post
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 Sector24 Apr 2026 | 24
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 Networks24 Apr 2026 | 65
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-crime24 Apr 2026 | 9
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-crime24 Apr 2026 | 13
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers OSes24 Apr 2026 | 53
OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party Grafanacon We gotta get boring to get graduated Software24 Apr 2026 | 4
Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget Partner Content
Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk Software24 Apr 2026 | 73
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 Security24 Apr 2026 | 4
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Systems24 Apr 2026 | 13
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Applications24 Apr 2026 | 28
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 Security24 Apr 2026 | 10
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 + IaaS24 Apr 2026 | 136
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? BOFH24 Apr 2026 | 68
Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Security24 Apr 2026 | 35
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 Sector24 Apr 2026 | 82
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 Software24 Apr 2026 | 11
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? Networks24 Apr 2026 | 121
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 Research24 Apr 2026 | 5
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises
How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI
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
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
Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers Black Hat Asia Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Security24 Apr 2026 | 16
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 + ML23 Apr 2026 | 24
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 Security23 Apr 2026 | 27
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate Science23 Apr 2026 | 9
Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense opinion The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance
AI's not going to kill open source code security Opinion Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now KETTLE Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch Who, Me? There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now Opinion AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Bork!Bork!Bork! Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now Keep the patches away for as long as you like
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Updated Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team
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 AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 23
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once Security23 Apr 2026 | 7
US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes Three vendors matched to three sites Public Sector23 Apr 2026 | 10
Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure Partner Content
YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard What are you doing to solve the memory crisis? Personal Tech23 Apr 2026 | 20
Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors Google Cloud Next 'Differentiated, but open' AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 4
Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone online Security23 Apr 2026 | 79
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 Applications23 Apr 2026 | 59
Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar Down to you to work out the value Software23 Apr 2026 | 2
Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions Storage23 Apr 2026 |
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences Science23 Apr 2026 | 22
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 Sector23 Apr 2026 | 20
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear Systems23 Apr 2026 | 4
Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals Updated World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace Cyber-crime23 Apr 2026 | 20
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 Applications23 Apr 2026 | 2
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 Systems23 Apr 2026 | 33