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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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Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless

Wed, 2026-04-15 07:27
Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work

A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…

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The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Wed, 2026-04-15 07:03
The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think

Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…

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Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt

Wed, 2026-04-15 05:59
Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering

Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…

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AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop: Gartner

Wed, 2026-04-15 03:00
Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away

Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

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Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs

Tue, 2026-04-14 22:40
Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app

Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…

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Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:57
The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data.

Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.…

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Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:40
One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more

Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…

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You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Tue, 2026-04-14 20:21
Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…

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