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VECT 2.0 Ransomware Irreversibly Destroys Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi 2026-04-28 at 18:06 By Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible […]

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says ‘We haven’t canceled anything yet’ 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Richard Speed 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

Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Tobias Mann 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.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Brussels orders Google to share Android’s AI sandbox with the other kids 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Dan Robinson DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users

UK.gov’s DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Lindsay Clark £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k

Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About 2026-04-28 at 17:12 By Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. It is also a major

Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE 2026-04-28 at 15:09 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3),

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts 2026-04-28 at 14:22 By Connor Jones Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.… This

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after ‘service change’ 2026-04-28 at 14:03 By Richard Speed Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs… just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft’s assurances it rolled back the configuration

After Mythos: New Playbooks For a Zero-Window Era 2026-04-28 at 14:02 By When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and protect after a vulnerability disclosure, is closing fast.

SUSE’s sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question 2026-04-28 at 13:27 By Richard Speed Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch – even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back 2026-04-28 at 12:25 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion  The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away

Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks 2026-04-28 at 12:25 By A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.  Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese