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England’s school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one 2026-04-21 at 14:08 By Carly Page 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there’s paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England’s patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters 2026-04-21 at 14:08 By Connor Jones No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little London’s Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city’s pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn’t rely on live facial recognition (LFR).… This

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By Simon Sharwood Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.… This article is an

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By Simon Sharwood And China is loving it Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.… This article is

CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is

Task Manager’s CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it 2026-04-21 at 12:15 By Richard Speed Spoiler: There’s no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager’s CPU usage meter.…

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul 2026-04-21 at 11:30 By Carly Page Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware