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
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
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
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
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
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 | 157
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too OSes29 Apr 2026 | 17
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
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
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
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
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
OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 2
Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 42
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 15
Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 8
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 3
Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 10
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Public Sector28 Apr 2026 | 21
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change' Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users SaaS28 Apr 2026 | 22
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options Software28 Apr 2026 | 41
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back Opinion Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating AI + ML28 Apr 2026 | 45
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made Public Sector28 Apr 2026 | 70
‘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 | 5
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions Legal28 Apr 2026 | 12
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 | 54
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding AI + ML27 Apr 2026 | 46
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm They were doing it in Texas... Systems27 Apr 2026 | 3
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 | 25
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 | 17
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 | 38
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 | 8
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
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now Keep the patches away for as long as you like OSes27 Apr 2026 | 47
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 | 32
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 | 24
It's time to make agentic automation scalable Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits Sponsored Post
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 | 100
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 | 18
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 | 55
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 | 25
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
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 AI + ML24 Apr 2026 | 37
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 | 59
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers OSes24 Apr 2026 | 55
OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party Grafanacon We gotta get boring to get graduated Software24 Apr 2026 | 4
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 | 75
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 | 139
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 | 36
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 | 12
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
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 | 24
Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors Google Cloud Next 'Differentiated, but open' AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 4
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
Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget Partner Content
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 |
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
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 | 35
AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues Rise of the Machines Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 25
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot AI + ML23 Apr 2026 | 44
Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa Software23 Apr 2026 | 5
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger Hackpocalypse deferred Security22 Apr 2026 | 82
OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot Make your model smarter through self-surveillance AI + ML22 Apr 2026 | 11
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement Devops22 Apr 2026 | 28
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers Public Sector22 Apr 2026 | 34
Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees SaaS22 Apr 2026 | 1
Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice Applications22 Apr 2026 | 38