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Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl

2 hours 39 sec ago
As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way

Google Cloud Next Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape, rebranding and expanding its Vertex AI developer platform into what it now calls the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.…

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Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies

2 hours 2 min ago
Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos

Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…

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Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win

2 hours 4 min ago
x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores

Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs.…

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France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

2 hours 34 min ago
Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population

France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…

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Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges

2 hours 49 min ago
Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws

London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…

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UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial

2 hours 56 min ago
Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure

A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft's objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for trial.…

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Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs

4 hours 4 min ago
Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption

Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query language SQL.…

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Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects

4 hours 49 min ago
Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators

One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.…

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Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock

5 hours 34 min ago
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment

A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.…

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Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

9 hours 32 min ago
Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security

The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…

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Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

11 hours 10 min ago
Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI

Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.…

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Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan

13 hours 47 min ago
Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.…

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Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI

Tue, 2026-04-21 22:06
John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been

OPINION Apple's pending leadership transition affords the company a rare opportunity to return to its roots and once again serve as a source of inspiration instead of frustration.…

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Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor

Tue, 2026-04-21 21:30
NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace

State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…

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Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears

Tue, 2026-04-21 20:52
Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint

The latest point release of Zorin OS is here, as an interesting alternative to Linux Mint for those still searching for a replacement for Windows 10 as the dust settles over the ruins.…

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Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide

Tue, 2026-04-21 20:26
Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot'

If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.…

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More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks

Tue, 2026-04-21 17:30
CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch

America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…

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Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months

Tue, 2026-04-21 16:35
Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall

The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026.…

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macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets

Tue, 2026-04-21 15:50
Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up

A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions.…

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Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

Tue, 2026-04-21 15:27
Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes

A new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memory management. The latter is a critical issue to devs and follows complaints of memory leaks causing problems in production.…

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