April 2026

The grim warning sign from AI influencers that keep racking up comments from lonely men: ‘Societal loss of humanity’ 2026-04-24 at 13:18 By Georgia Worrell Roses are red/ violets are blue/ these girls are AI/ would they fool you, too? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By SA Mathieson Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union’s biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system’s

Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room 2026-04-24 at 11:37 By SA Mathieson Nothing says ‘We want honest opinions’ like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three

Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Connor Jones Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for

LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city’s public EV chargers 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Simon Sharwood Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Black Hat Asia  Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed