Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - PWNED - Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

22 hours ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

5 hours ago

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - On Call - For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem

5 hours ago

NeuBird AI plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes

1 day ago

Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root -- Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

1 day ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

3 hours ago

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet -- Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

5 hours ago

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected

9 hours ago

Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz -- The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

13 hours ago

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser -- Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

5 hours ago

Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm -- ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

5 hours ago

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

1 hour ago

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

1 hour ago

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves

1 minute ago

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected

22 hours ago

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector

3 hours ago

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely -- Science

4 hours ago

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives -- Personal Tech

4 hours ago

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech

5 hours ago

First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes

6 hours ago

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked -- Security

7 hours ago

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev -- Science

8 hours ago

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night - OSes - 01 May 2026 - | 8

3 hours ago

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database - Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

2 days ago

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security

9 hours ago

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector

11 hours ago

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - On Call - For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem - Applications - 01 May 2026 - | 167

17 minutes ago

Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems

13 hours ago

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems

15 hours ago

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts -- Off-Prem

17 hours ago

The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools - Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware - Security - 30 Apr 2026 - |

20 hours ago

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl! -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start -- Security

23 hours ago

FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' -- One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend -- Security

1 day ago

AWS Will Be An OEM, Just Like Google And Maybe Microsoft

19 hours ago

New Google Networks Tuned Up For GenAI Inference And Training

2 days ago

Microsoft And OpenAI Remain Friends, Are Looking To Hook Up With Others

3 days ago

AI-Driven CPU Shortage Saves Intel's Financial Cookies

3 days ago

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger - Hackpocalypse deferred

7 days ago

Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs -- Networks

1 day ago

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows -- Patches

1 day ago

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool -- Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor -- Devops

1 day ago

AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI -- Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party -- SaaS

1 day ago

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

1 day ago

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

2 days ago

OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party

2 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

8 days ago

When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon - Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy -- Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? -- OSes

1 day ago

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - Exclusive - Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit - Cyber-crime - 30 Apr 2026 - | 3

16 hours ago

It's time to make agentic automation scalable - Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits - Sponsored Post

4 days ago

Spectacular cash generator Sandisk generates spectacular pile of dollars

4 hours ago

AI demand drives WD revenue's sky high with more to come

7 hours ago

Prelim Samsung Memory results exceeded by even bigger actuals

1 day ago

Druva brings its SaaS protection to Power BI

1 day ago

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds -- Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack -- Second try's a charm? -- Patches

1 day ago

Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 -- Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security -- Security

2 days ago

Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages -- Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info -- Legal

2 days ago

Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage -- Those that don't have one thing in common

2 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

14 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

1 month ago

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it -- New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too -- OSes

2 days ago

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 -- Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about -- Networks

2 days ago

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models -- There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was -- AI + ML

2 days ago

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest -- Science

1 day ago

CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool -- GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough -- Security

2 days ago

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Eleven up, ten down -- AI + ML

2 days ago

GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash -- Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award -- Security

1 day ago

Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours - Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget - Partner Content

8 days ago

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story -- Interview -- No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 -- Antiques code show -- Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes -- OSes

2 days ago

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online -- 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses' -- Applications

2 days ago

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain -- After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide -- Devops

2 days ago

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks -- 32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected -- Networks

2 days ago

AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in -- Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs -- Databases

2 days ago

Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute - BORK!BORK!BORK! Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show - Offbeat - 29 Apr 2026 - | 2

1 day ago

30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm -- Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw -- Security

2 days ago

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' -- Bemoans frequent outages that mean he'll move Ghostty elsewhere -- Software

2 days ago

Future holiday horror: 'A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo' -- Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species -- AI + ML

2 days ago

The future of software development: Now with less software development -- At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm -- No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on -- On-Prem

2 days ago