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Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers 2026-04-08 at 15:45 By Paul Kunert To ‘minimize disruption,’ Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn’t want Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to “minimize disruption” for existing customers by

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Investors are going nuclear to keep UK’s AI datacenters fed

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK’s AI datacenters fed 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Dan Robinson Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand Investors are backing nuclear power as a solution to fuel the UK’s datacenter buildout, according to researchers tracking investment activity.… This article is

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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack

Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Connor Jones ChipSoft’s website remains down but emails are functioning A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By Lindsay Clark Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform The UK’s largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run

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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)

Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) 2026-04-08 at 15:06 By The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems.  The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits

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NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams 2026-04-08 at 13:10 By Connor Jones Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.… This article is an

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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems 2026-04-08 at 13:09 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple,

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Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser

Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser 2026-04-08 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Martin Gillow’s 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor’s mechanics and enciphering logic online An enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via

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UK’s grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle

UK’s grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle 2026-04-08 at 12:16 By Lindsay Clark Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up The UK’s hopes of fueling cutting-edge AI development and applications with a National Data Library (NDL) could be dashed unless it makes datasets easier to use.…

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N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust

N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust 2026-04-08 at 11:22 By The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. “The threat actor’s packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling […], while quietly functioning as malware

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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs

Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs 2026-04-08 at 09:28 By Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. “These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases,

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Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’ 2026-04-08 at 08:13 By Simon Sharwood Opting out of personal data use won’t be an option because Minister says that’s a ‘very big obstacle’ to AI adoption Japan’s Minister for Digital Transformation Hisashi Matsumoto has declared the nation will become the easiest

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Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns

Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns 2026-04-08 at 02:38 By Jessica Lyons Your PLCs aren’t internet-connected, right? Right?! Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from

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Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable

Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable 2026-04-08 at 02:38 By Simon Sharwood Also asserts it can beat Cisco’s homebrew hypervisor for calling apps .NEXT  Nutanix has teamed with Microsoft to bring cloudy desktops on-prem, using its extensive desktop virtualization (VDI) experience to make it work.… This article is an

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13 shots pumped into Indianapolis official’s front door raises fears over violent data center opposition: ‘Deeply unsettling’

13 shots pumped into Indianapolis official’s front door raises fears over violent data center opposition: ‘Deeply unsettling’ 2026-04-08 at 01:11 By Marc Vartabedian An Indianapolis city councilor’s home was shot up a few hours after Easter Sunday with a note left on the doorstep: “NO DATA CENTERS.” Ron Gibson– who is serving his third term

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