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OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape 2026-04-09 at 18:07 By Dan Robinson Sam Altman’s datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain’s AI ambitions OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost […]

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Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Carly Page Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile

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Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Connor Jones No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their

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Peace President’s Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Peace President’s Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Dan Robinson Memory costs were already through the roof – now freight’s spiking too, and budget systems face extinction America’s war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost

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Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows

Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, and

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113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs

113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Sinisa Markovic MyLovely.AI, an AI girlfriend platform, suffered a data breach that exposed over 100,000 users. MyLovely.AI allows people to create personalized not safe for work (NSFW) content and engage in real-time conversations with AI-generated companions, often involving

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Apple Intelligence AI Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack

Apple Intelligence AI Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Eduard Kovacs RSAC researchers hacked Apple Intelligence using the Neural Exect method and Unicode manipulation. The post Apple Intelligence AI Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Hybrid P2P Botnet, 13-Year-Old Apache RCE and 18 More Stories

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Hybrid P2P Botnet, 13-Year-Old Apache RCE and 18 More Stories 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should’ve been caught sooner but weren’t. This one’s got some range — old vulnerabilities getting new life, a few “why was that even possible” moments, attackers leaning on platforms and tools you’d

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Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse 2026-04-09 at 16:17 By Jessica Lyons Wash your mouth out with digital soap Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an

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Err-Hiding and Seek: How ErrTraffic v3 Leverages EtherHiding in ClickFix Campaign

Err-Hiding and Seek: How ErrTraffic v3 Leverages EtherHiding in ClickFix Campaign 2026-04-09 at 16:17 By King Orande and Cris Tomboc TLP: AMBER+STRICT The LevelBlue SpiderLabs team examined the latest version of ErrTraffic, which emerged in early 2026. In a recently observed campaign, the team found that ErrTraffic primarily targets WordPress websites by deploying a PHP backdoor script

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Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)

Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197) 2026-04-09 at 16:17 By Zeljka Zorz In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ that’s been introduced in the codebase 13 years

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Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations

Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations 2026-04-09 at 16:16 By Industry News Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: What are the real threat vectors for our organization? What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now? What should we

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Bitcoin Depot discloses $3.7M BTC theft in cybersecurity breach

Bitcoin Depot discloses $3.7M BTC theft in cybersecurity breach 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Bitcoin Depot said a hacker stole 50.9 BTC, worth about $3.7 million, after gaining access to internal systems linked to corporate wallets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Crypto exchanges chase TradFi commodities market as pricing gaps persist

Crypto exchanges chase TradFi commodities market as pricing gaps persist 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Crypto exchanges are racing to capture the market share of TradFi trading venues, but tokenized commodities adoption remains limited by pricing and liquidity concerns. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Gold, silver and oil drive 65,000% jump in commodity perpetuals

Gold, silver and oil drive 65,000% jump in commodity perpetuals 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai BitMEX said commodity perpetual swaps volume jumped from $38.1 million to $25 billion in Q1 as traders flocked to 24/7 gold, silver and oil exposure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Tim Anderson Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Corey Quinn The core product is solid and priced fairly I’ve spent over a decade telling anyone who’d listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start

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Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment 2026-04-09 at 15:44 By Carly Page Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to

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