Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal (2026/04/16) UPDATED Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing
Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban (2026/04/16) If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist (2026/04/16) Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'
If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID (2026/04/16) Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses (2026/04/16) Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims
Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband (2026/04/16) Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars (2026/04/16) Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam
Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews (2026/04/16) Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up
Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned (2026/04/16) When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue (2026/04/16) Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod (2026/04/16) Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer
Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed (2026/04/16) Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data
Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine (2026/04/16) Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy (2026/04/16) Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall (2026/04/16) Bork!Bork!Bork! Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start
Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive (2026/04/16) Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget
Server-room lock was nothing but a crock (2026/04/16) PWNED Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different (2026/04/16) Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant
Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan (2026/04/16) Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment (2026/04/16) Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices