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Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Richard Speed Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will ” complete the retirement” of the app on May 25.… This article […]

UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program 2026-04-14 at 12:01 By Lindsay Clark Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years The UK’s state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.… This article is an excerpt from […]

108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users 2026-04-14 at 12:00 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by […]

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It’s trying to get back there now 2026-04-14 at 10:48 By Tobias Mann Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold When IBM PCs set the standard for personal […]

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs 2026-04-14 at 10:08 By Avram Piltch Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion  It’s not the first time this has happened to me and it won’t be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn’t used for six months out of a drawer, then waited […]

CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) –  An […]

ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers 2026-04-14 at 09:14 By A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0. It relates to a case of […]

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure 2026-04-14 at 06:29 By Simon Sharwood Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure […]

The votes are in: AI will hurt elections and relationships 2026-04-14 at 04:10 By Thomas Claburn Latest report from Stanford’s AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of […]

Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.… This […]

Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Jessica Lyons One was patched almost 14 years ago Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities – one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity – according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday […]

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude 2026-04-14 at 01:35 By Thomas Claburn Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic’s Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with “a major outage,” service trouble […]

How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough 2026-04-13 at 23:10 By O’Ryan Johnson ‘AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,’ SVP John Aisien told us ServiceNow’s latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.… This article […]

Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs 2026-04-13 at 22:43 By Marc Vartabedian Outrage continues to build around Oracle’s mass layoffs as some laid-off workers slam the software giant for how it allegedly chose who to cut – with one 30-year veteran suggesting the company may have targeted employees with outstanding […]

Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets 2026-04-13 at 22:43 By Jessica Lyons Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official […]

JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025 2026-04-13 at 22:42 By Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency […]

iPhone users warned to delete suspicious emails linked to iCloud storage scam 2026-04-13 at 21:47 By Reda Wigle Consumer organizations are warning the world’s 1.8 billion iPhone users about a sinister email scam designed to pilfer personal info and loot banking details. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

Retired sportswriter reveals how he lost $270K life savings to online scam featuring ‘young and gorgeous’ woman 2026-04-13 at 20:58 By Ariel Zilber Al Levine, an 82-year-old former Atlanta Journal-Constitution sportswriter, said it started with a random text from “Daisy Miller.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View […]

Meta is building a creepy AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg to chat with staff: report 2026-04-13 at 20:57 By Thomas Barrabi Meta staffers will soon have the option of chatting with a virtual clone of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to a report Monday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York […]

Oracle job cuts and AI spending could impact support, raise prices 2026-04-13 at 20:57 By Lindsay Clark Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.… […]