2026

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y’all, what is it good for? $45M in this case 2026-04-09 at 21:58 By Jessica Lyons Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more […]

World’s smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate 2026-04-09 at 21:58 By Paul Kunert C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home It’s going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly […]

Meta boots law firm ads seeking clients to sue over alleged Facebook, Instagram addiction 2026-04-09 at 20:42 By Marc Vartabedian The ads had been designed to find users of Meta products to join the growing number of lawsuits targeting the social-media giant. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

AWS: Agents shouldn’t be secret, so we built a registry for them 2026-04-09 at 20:42 By Thomas Claburn Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don’t always have visibility into what […]

‘Several dozen’ high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree 2026-04-09 at 20:16 By Jessica Lyons Possible link to Mr. Raccoon’s claimed Adobe break-in A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original […]

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By Connor Jones FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By Lindsay Clark ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including […]

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By Simon Sharwood Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything Exclusive  Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.… This article […]

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By Carly Page UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a “major outage” across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS […]

UAT-10362 Targets Taiwanese NGOs with LucidRook Malware in Spear-Phishing Campaigns 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. “LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries […]

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 […]

Baltimore Security Guards On Strike 2026-04-09 at 18:07 By Baltimore security guards are participating in a strike.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]