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More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks

21.04.2026 19:30

CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to ...

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months

21.04.2026 18:35

Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose n...

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets

21.04.2026 17:50

Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session c...

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

21.04.2026 17:27

Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes A new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memo...

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping

21.04.2026 16:45

Change is glacial, but the direction is clear It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important...

Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords

21.04.2026 16:15

Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US bu...

FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap'

21.04.2026 15:29

One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume Blue Origin's New Glenn loss of a satellite has been classed as a "mishap" by the US Federal Aviat...

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

21.04.2026 15:00

An $899 CPU? In this economy? Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better....

AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account

21.04.2026 14:17

CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, say...

Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies

21.04.2026 13:30

Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screen...

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters

21.04.2026 12:52

No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little London's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem… and it ...

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one

21.04.2026 12:13

90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's ...

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it

21.04.2026 11:15

Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager's CPU usage meter.…...

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul

21.04.2026 10:30

Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intrude...

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture

21.04.2026 09:37

Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated device...

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

21.04.2026 08:21

And China is loving it Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegati...

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing

21.04.2026 05:04

Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spac...

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

21.04.2026 01:42

Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code ...

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus

21.04.2026 01:26

A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports UPDATED Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read othe...

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again

21.04.2026 01:07

The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to ex...

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home

21.04.2026 00:23

Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple Have you heard? Apple's Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker's business. He'll become executive chairman and hand the reins...

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter

20.04.2026 23:25

Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit When Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase...

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet

20.04.2026 21:56

Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law One app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop fo...

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

20.04.2026 20:34

Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software The feature list for Linux kernel 7.1 is taking shape, and a standout addition has already landed: a new read-write NTFS driver....

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US

20.04.2026 19:22

Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency A Scottish man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime crew has pleaded guilty in the US to a phishing and SIM...

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house

20.04.2026 18:29

It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant' It's illegal and impractical to construct a nuclear power plant in your backyard. But a DIY tritium nuclear batte...

Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere

20.04.2026 18:07

Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete A study into how humans interact with chatbots suggests the fastest way to make an LLM feel human isn'...

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all

20.04.2026 17:50

US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders Updated The European Commission has awarded four contracts designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, but...

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

20.04.2026 17:24

Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball Google has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token...

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes

20.04.2026 15:15

Out-of-band or out of control? Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.…

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

20.04.2026 14:38

Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning cons...

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite

20.04.2026 14:13

Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects The UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.…...

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life

20.04.2026 13:25

Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client...

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit

20.04.2026 11:49

Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satelli...

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

20.04.2026 11:27

£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after com...

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing

20.04.2026 11:23

Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid in...

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

20.04.2026 10:25

We've been here before. This time, we may not get out Opinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters ...

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise

20.04.2026 09:31

Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led ...

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

20.04.2026 09:01

You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom Who, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's T...

NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

20.04.2026 07:52

Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the...

Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles

20.04.2026 04:07

PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has sus...

Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay

20.04.2026 01:00

Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us? kettle It's a week of the year, which means there's been the discovery of yet another promp...

I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns

19.04.2026 13:07

Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity OPINION AI vendors: "You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment...

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

19.04.2026 10:00

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, is in "real financial jeopardy," according to a miss...

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

18.04.2026 10:30

Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can...

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

18.04.2026 09:30

From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian ...

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

17.04.2026 23:46

Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-...

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

17.04.2026 22:38

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The compan...

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

17.04.2026 19:09

Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circ...

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

17.04.2026 18:31

Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational securi...