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FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches 2026-04-24 at 20:53 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency’s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.’s National […]

SpaceX warns probes into sexually abusive AI imagery could cause headaches as it gears up for IPO 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Reuters US securities law requires companies to disclose such risk factors, alerting investors to potential pitfalls while also helping protect companies against future legal liability. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

Intel shares skyrocket to all-time high as AI boom triggers remarkable turnaround 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Reuters Demand for Intel’s central processors from firms offering AI services was so strong in the first quarter that it sold even chips it had originally written off, a remarkable turnaround that sent the company’s shares soaring on Friday. The

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Dan Robinson Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere America’s telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular

ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival’s booty as 7.5M emails surface 2026-04-24 at 19:10 By Carly Page Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5

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.…

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 –

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,

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

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

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 –

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

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