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Anthropic's Project Glasswing CVE tally is still anyone's guess

Wed, 2026-04-15 21:33
Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery

Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?…

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Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time

Wed, 2026-04-15 21:07
'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise

People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…

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Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

Wed, 2026-04-15 20:25
Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance

Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.…

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Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top

Wed, 2026-04-15 20:06
Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea

OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…

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Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP

Wed, 2026-04-15 17:52
No reports of active exploitation (yet)

Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…

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Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

Wed, 2026-04-15 17:09
Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…

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Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students

Wed, 2026-04-15 16:46
Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data

New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.…

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Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption

Wed, 2026-04-15 16:18
Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider

Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.…

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Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms

Wed, 2026-04-15 15:40
Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around

AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…

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Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

Wed, 2026-04-15 15:14
We've all been there

Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…

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French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal

Wed, 2026-04-15 13:29
Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title

A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…

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US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Wed, 2026-04-15 12:35
Report says authorities are flouting accounting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies

Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.…

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Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

Wed, 2026-04-15 12:16
Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform

Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.…

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Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks

Wed, 2026-04-15 11:46
Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list

While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…

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Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Wed, 2026-04-15 11:35
Command prefix will require password by default

The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…

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Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Wed, 2026-04-15 11:06
Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?

The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…

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UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

Wed, 2026-04-15 10:15
Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…

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Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges

Wed, 2026-04-15 09:30
Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade

Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.…

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Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Wed, 2026-04-15 08:45
Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel

Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…

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Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users

Wed, 2026-04-15 08:01
Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive

Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…

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