2026

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Connor Jones Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – […]

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Liam Proven One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it’s gone, it no longer matters if it’s buggy.… […]

Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Joe Fay We gotta get boring to get graduated Grafanacon  The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.… This […]

NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software 2026-04-24 at 19:09 By The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, […]

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced workers to leave 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Richard Speed Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its […]

Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Dan Robinson Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again… now it has to build the chips Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will […]

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for ‘tens of millions’ of AWS Graviton cores 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Tobias Mann After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services’ Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the […]

Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with … hard-to-read messages 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Richard Speed Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Microsoft’s update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings – […]

It’s a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Simon Sharwood OpenAI’s first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia  Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic’s […]

Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine 2026-04-24 at 16:23 By The AI Agent Authority Gap – From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply […]

26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases 2026-04-24 at 16:23 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. “Once launched, these apps redirect […]

How an FCC squabble over paperwork is jeopardizing a rural expansion of wireless services 2026-04-24 at 14:36 By Charles Gasparino Brevet Capital, with around $2.5 billion in assets under management, has been locked in what appears to be a strange, two-year bureaucratic snafu with regulators. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami 2026-04-24 at 14:36 By Carly Page Oval Office resident rants about Blighty’s Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a “big tariff” if it doesn’t scrap its tax on […]