'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree (2026/04/09) Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in
Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement (2026/04/09) FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller (2026/04/09) ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge (2026/04/09) Exclusive Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything
Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare (2026/04/09) UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape (2026/04/09) Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets (2026/04/09) Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process (2026/04/09) No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market (2026/04/09) Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction
Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse (2026/04/09) Wash your mouth out with digital soap
Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off (2026/04/09) Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions (2026/04/09) The core product is solid and priced fairly
Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment (2026/04/09) Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash
UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns (2026/04/09) DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension
Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data (2026/04/09) As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough
UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown (2026/04/09) Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses
Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action (2026/04/09) Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings
Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors (2026/04/09) PWNED Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days
Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school (2026/04/09) You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them!