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
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
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave On Call For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem
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 Sector01 May 2026 | 1
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely Science01 May 2026 | 1
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 Tech01 May 2026 | 17
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 + ML01 May 2026 | 1
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 Tech01 May 2026 | 17
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-crime01 May 2026 | 6
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 OSes01 May 2026 | 18
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 Security01 May 2026 | 5
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 Science01 May 2026 | 16
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Cyber-crime01 May 2026 | 16
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 Sector01 May 2026 | 17
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night OSes01 May 2026 | 8
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding
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 Security01 May 2026 | 7
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 Sector01 May 2026 | 13
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave On Call For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem Applications01 May 2026 | 156
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’ Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler Systems01 May 2026 | 8
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’ Systems01 May 2026 | 8
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-Prem01 May 2026 | 20
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware Security30 Apr 2026 |
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Updated Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open AI + ML30 Apr 2026 | 28
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 Security30 Apr 2026 | 4
FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend Security30 Apr 2026 | 3
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger Hackpocalypse deferred
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 Tech30 Apr 2026 | 40
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 Networks30 Apr 2026 | 4
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 Patches30 Apr 2026 | 5
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-crime30 Apr 2026 | 18
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 Devops30 Apr 2026 | 17
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-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 11
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party SaaS30 Apr 2026 | 13
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
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 + ML30 Apr 2026 | 3
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? OSes30 Apr 2026 | 117
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 + ML30 Apr 2026 | 10
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-crime30 Apr 2026 | 22
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-crime30 Apr 2026 | 3
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 Patches30 Apr 2026 | 13
It's time to make agentic automation scalable Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits Sponsored Post
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 Software30 Apr 2026 | 85
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 Offbeat30 Apr 2026 | 72
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 Security30 Apr 2026 | 27
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-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 6
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs AI is driving more searches and ads Off-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 1
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 Off-Prem30 Apr 2026 | 3
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation OSes30 Apr 2026 | 44
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz The Trainium train keeps a-rollin' AI + ML29 Apr 2026 | 4
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 Research29 Apr 2026 | 23
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Second try's a charm? Patches29 Apr 2026 | 16
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security Security29 Apr 2026 | 10
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 Legal29 Apr 2026 | 22
NeuBird AI plans a bright future for incident response Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes
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
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too OSes29 Apr 2026 | 17
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 Networks29 Apr 2026 | 2
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 + ML29 Apr 2026 | 47
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest Science29 Apr 2026 | 103
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Second try's a charm?
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
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
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
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Updated Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open
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
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
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough Security29 Apr 2026 | 3
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 Security29 Apr 2026 | 2
Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget Partner Content
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 + ML29 Apr 2026 | 7
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 OSes29 Apr 2026 | 22
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' Applications29 Apr 2026 | 53
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 Devops29 Apr 2026 | 21
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 Networks29 Apr 2026 | 56
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 Databases29 Apr 2026 | 2
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 Offbeat29 Apr 2026 | 2
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw Security29 Apr 2026 | 4
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere Software29 Apr 2026 | 54
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 + ML29 Apr 2026 | 23
The future of software development: Now with less software development At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 13
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-Prem28 Apr 2026 | 50