2026

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Tim Anderson Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, just published an incident report regarding what it calls the September 2025 RubyGems fracture,

‘People’s Panel’ to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By SA Mathieson We could tell you no for free The UK government will spend about £630,000 running a discussion panel on its digital identity card plans, which minister James Frith said will “consider different perspectives and debate trade-offs”

France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Dan Robinson Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder The French government has finally closed a deal to purchase the Advanced Computing assets of tech giant Atos, leading to the re-emergence of an old industry name: Bull.… This article is

Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp-Delivered VBS Malware Hijacking Windows via UAC Bypass 2026-04-01 at 17:32 By Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files. The activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence

Block the Prompt, Not the Work: The End of “Doctor No” 2026-04-01 at 17:32 By There is a character that keeps appearing in enterprise security departments, and most CISOs know exactly who that is. It doesn’t build. It doesn’t enable. Its entire function is to say “No.” No to ChatGPT. No to DeepSeek. No to

Casbaneiro Phishing Targets Latin America and Europe Using Dynamic PDF Lures 2026-04-01 at 17:32 By A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot. The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor

New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released 2026-04-01 at 17:32 By Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn,

Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes 2026-04-01 at 16:08 By Richard Speed Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash Virgin Galactic has reopened suborbital ticket sales with a price rise and a promise for commercial spaceflight operations in Q4 2026.… This article is an excerpt from