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Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts 2026-04-28 at 14:22 By Connor Jones Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.… This […]

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after ‘service change’ 2026-04-28 at 14:03 By Richard Speed Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs… just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft’s assurances it rolled back the configuration

After Mythos: New Playbooks For a Zero-Window Era 2026-04-28 at 14:02 By When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and protect after a vulnerability disclosure, is closing fast.

SUSE’s sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question 2026-04-28 at 13:27 By Richard Speed Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch – even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back 2026-04-28 at 12:25 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion  The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away

Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks 2026-04-28 at 12:25 By A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.  Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese

UK govt dept sent a document ‘in error.’ Now it’s being used in a £370M contract lawsuit 2026-04-28 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen … or made The UK’s pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says

Microsoft Confirms Active Exploitation of Windows Shell CVE-2026-32202 2026-04-28 at 10:51 By Microsoft on Monday revised its advisory for a now-patched, high-severity security flaw impacting Windows Shell to acknowledge that it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-32202 (CVSS score: 4.3), a spoofing vulnerability that could allow an attacker

Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw That Enabled Service Principal Takeover 2026-04-28 at 10:51 By An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort. Agent ID Administrator is a privileged built-in role introduced by Microsoft as part

‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue 2026-04-28 at 08:43 By Simon Sharwood Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Less Than 10% of Higher Education Has No Intention of Adopting AI 2026-04-28 at 08:42 By The majority of universities have either adopted AI or intend to soon. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

2025 Saw Fewer Healthcare Breaches Than 2024 2026-04-28 at 08:42 By 2025 healthcare breaches dropped from 2024 This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lawyers for Sam Altman’s sister quit representing her in sex-abuse lawsuit against OpenAI CEO 2026-04-28 at 06:32 By Reuters The law fimrs cited “an unfortunate general breakdown in the attorney-client relationship” and said continuing to represent Annie Altman in the civil lawsuit was “impracticable.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database 2026-04-28 at 06:32 By Thomas Claburn Relax, the data’s been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company’s AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. … This

The Navy’s autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown 2026-04-28 at 06:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo After missing its 2025 target, Boeing’s MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone

China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus 2026-04-28 at 05:09 By Simon Sharwood Back to the drawing board for Meta’s AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source