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EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

1 hour 22 min ago
'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'

The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.…

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GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

2 hours 25 min ago
After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide

Microsoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."…

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GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks

3 hours 25 min ago
32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected

GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.…

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AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in

4 hours 10 min ago
Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs

SAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from customers' SAP data.…

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Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute

4 hours 55 min ago
Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show

BORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.…

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30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm

6 hours 53 min ago
Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw

Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…

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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

8 hours 39 min ago
Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.…

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Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

11 hours 10 min ago
Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species

Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.…

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The future of software development: Now with less software development

Tue, 2026-04-28 22:00
At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…

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Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

Tue, 2026-04-28 21:58
No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on

Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…

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Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges

Tue, 2026-04-28 20:46
PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role

The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …

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OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock

Tue, 2026-04-28 19:21
Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you

OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…

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Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out

Tue, 2026-04-28 18:36
'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'

Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…

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Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

Tue, 2026-04-28 18:10
DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…

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Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

Tue, 2026-04-28 17:51
Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…

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IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

Tue, 2026-04-28 17:18
80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags

IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.…

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Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps

Tue, 2026-04-28 17:06
Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market

Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…

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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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