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Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 2026-04-17 at 10:12 By Thomas Claburn Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could […]

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts 2026-04-17 at 10:11 By An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the […]

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure 2026-04-17 at 09:24 By Simon Sharwood Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.… This article is an excerpt from […]

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day 2026-04-17 at 07:43 By Simon Sharwood Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing […]

How CSOs Can Win Board Support for Gunshot Detection Technology 2026-04-17 at 07:42 By How CSOs can win board support for gunshot detection technology. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation 2026-04-17 at 07:42 By A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to its Known […]

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google 2026-04-17 at 05:53 By Simon Sharwood We’re not half way there, we’re still livin’ on a prayer IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original […]

Student accused of trying to murder Sam Altman is ‘well-informed’ ‘AI doomer,’ says podcast host who interviewed him 2026-04-17 at 02:15 By Rikki Schlott “I think that there’s elements in his behavior that resemble some of what we see out of school shooters … ” podcaster Andy Mills said of guest and accused murderer Daniel […]

Anthropic won’t own MCP ‘design flaw’ putting 200K servers at risk, researcher says 2026-04-17 at 02:15 By Jessica Lyons Bug or feature? A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic’s official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as […]

Netflix, HBO Max, other streaming services subscribers revolt over jacked-up prices: ‘I’m done’ 2026-04-17 at 00:43 By Ariel Zilber Scores of cord-cutters have taken to Reddit to vent their anger at shelling out nearly $30 a month for Netflix and more than $20 for HBO Max. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News […]

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Jessica Lyons Social engineering: ‘low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well’ North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users’ credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on […]

Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Tobias Mann If there’s one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it’s a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear […]

Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. “PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the […]

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers 2026-04-17 at 00:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Client connects to deepset’s Haystack platform Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. … This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes 2026-04-17 at 00:08 By O’Ryan Johnson ‘I think you can run this thing on a potato,’ NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. Broadcom’s price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for […]

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal 2026-04-16 at 23:25 By Thomas Claburn Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic ‘small changes’ problem in lakehouses 2026-04-16 at 19:49 By Lindsay Clark Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the “small changes” problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the […]

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband 2026-04-16 at 19:49 By Dan Robinson Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes North America has some of the world’s most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Dan Robinson When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on… Britain’s government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every […]

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Carly Page Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, […]