Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies (2026/04/22) Google Cloud Next Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos
Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win (2026/04/22) Google Cloud Next x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores
France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records (2026/04/22) Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges (2026/04/22) Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial (2026/04/22) Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs (2026/04/22) Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects (2026/04/22) Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock (2026/04/22) Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot (2026/04/22) Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs (2026/04/22) Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan (2026/04/22) Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone
Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI (2026/04/22) OPINION John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been
Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor (2026/04/21) NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace
Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears (2026/04/21) Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide (2026/04/21) Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot'
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months (2026/04/21) Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets (2026/04/21) Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks (2026/04/21) Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping (2026/04/21) Change is glacial, but the direction is clear