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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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