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Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds 2026-04-30 at 10:21 By Simon Sharwood Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.… […]

Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution 2026-04-30 at 10:21 By Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. “The vulnerability

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs 2026-04-30 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood AI is driving more searches and ads Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.… This article is

Building Public/Private Partnerships That Actually Move the Needle 2026-04-30 at 08:47 By Public and private sector partnerships strengthen security at every level. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meta shares slide as tech giant hikes AI spending forecast, warns of youth social media backlash 2026-04-30 at 06:36 By Reuters Legal and regulatory blowback in the European Union and the US “could significantly impact our business and financial results,” the Facebook parent cautioned. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New

Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they’re a $20B biz 2026-04-30 at 06:36 By O’Ryan Johnson The Trainium train keeps a-rollin’ Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate … and it would be closer to $50

Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root 2026-04-30 at 06:36 By Thomas Claburn Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises 2026-04-30 at 04:15 By Tobias Mann Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand If you’ve felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026

Elon Musk testifies he was a ‘fool’ to invest with ‘disingenuous’ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in bombshell trial 2026-04-30 at 00:33 By Marc Vartabedian Elon Musk sparred with an attorney for OpenAI and Sam Altman during his cross examination on Wednesday – with Musk hitting back repeatedly at the attorney William Savitt’s yes or no

Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm 2026-04-29 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at

AI chatbots terrify scientists with ‘chilling’ instructions on how to build biological weapons: report 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Thomas Barrabi Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, himself a biologist, wrote in a January blog post that “biology is by far the area I’m most worried about, because of its very large potential for destruction and the difficulty

Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit is settled 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Associated Press SpaceX had sued the commission over its opposition to expanding the launch schedule for Falcon 9 rockets. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Humanoid robots seen handling airport baggage in futuristic true footage 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Ben Cost, Brooke Steinberg The bots have got this in the bag. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Richard Speed Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday’s security Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange

Microsoft’s patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Jessica Lyons Second try’s a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.… This

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Liam Proven New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Databricks can’t seem to shake authors’ copyright claim that could result in ‘extraordinary’ damages 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By O’Ryan Johnson Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 2026-04-29 at 23:08 By Dan Robinson Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to

Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models 2026-04-29 at 20:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web

Australia to require Google, Meta, TikTok to pay for local news — or face new tax 2026-04-29 at 19:48 By Thomas Barrabi Dubbed the “News Bargaining Incentive,” the proposed law would impose a 2.25% tax on the local revenues of the social media giants that are unable or unwilling to reach deals with news outlets.