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Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak

Tue, 2026-04-28 14:15
Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump

Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…

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Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

Tue, 2026-04-28 13:30
That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…

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Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon

Tue, 2026-04-28 13:00
RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis

Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…

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Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

Tue, 2026-04-28 12:30
DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini

Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…

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UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

Tue, 2026-04-28 12:24
£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live

Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.…

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Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

Tue, 2026-04-28 11:14
Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow

Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…

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Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

Tue, 2026-04-28 10:32
Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users

Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…

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SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

Tue, 2026-04-28 10:00
Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options

European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

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Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Tue, 2026-04-28 09:15
Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…

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UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

Tue, 2026-04-28 08:30
Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made

The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…

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Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

Tue, 2026-04-28 07:20
Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home

Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…

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‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue

Tue, 2026-04-28 05:34
Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up

AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…

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China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Tue, 2026-04-28 02:09
Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions

China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

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Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

Tue, 2026-04-28 00:31
The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…

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Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools

Mon, 2026-04-27 23:33
Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…

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Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

Mon, 2026-04-27 21:29
Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …

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The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Mon, 2026-04-27 20:26
After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck

The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…

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The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific

Mon, 2026-04-27 18:58
They were doing it in Texas...

Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…

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Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders

Mon, 2026-04-27 17:53
Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings

Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…

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South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations

Mon, 2026-04-27 17:24
Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?

South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…

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