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Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers 2026-04-10 at 10:37 By Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. […]

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity 2026-04-10 at 08:57 By Simon Sharwood Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full […]

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly 2026-04-10 at 06:18 By Simon Sharwood Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.… This […]

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access 2026-04-10 at 06:14 By Simon Sharwood Everyone gets 400kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get a rap over the knuckles Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.… […]

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find 2026-04-10 at 02:29 By Thomas Claburn Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that’s a problem when they’re used to create advertising.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

Kindle users in uproar over latest update — rendering oldest devices virtually unusable: ‘F–k You!’ 2026-04-09 at 23:39 By Asia Grace They’re e-reading Amazon the riot act.  Bookworms are lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks in fiery fury as Amazon prepares to cease supporting older Kindle technologies this spring.  “Starting May 20, 2026, customers using Kindle and […]

Most Americans are using AI — but people are sick and tired of hearing about it: survey 2026-04-09 at 23:39 By SWNS The fatigue is setting in — according to a new survey, a majority of Americans are now using AI to some degree, but 54% are “getting tired of hearing” about the budding technology. […]

Meta rolls out new AI model in ‘fundamental shift’ in latest effort to catch up with rivals 2026-04-09 at 23:39 By Ariel Zilber The company unveiled Muse Spark, its first major AI model since overhauling its AI division and pouring billions into talent and infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Google’s AI Overviews spew millions of false answers per hour, bombshell study reveals 2026-04-09 at 23:39 By Thomas Barrabi “Google AI Overviews have been a disaster for publishers who rely on clicks to fund the production of quality journalism, but they also let down users looking for accurate information,” said the CEO of the News/Media […]

Google wants more Intel inside … its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs 2026-04-09 at 23:38 By Tobias Mann Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with […]

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch 2026-04-09 at 23:38 By Thomas Claburn Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The […]

Chinese Supercomputer Allegedly Hacked, 10 Petabytes of Data Stolen 2026-04-09 at 23:38 By Data has allegedly been stolen from a state-run Chinese supercomputer. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallets 2026-04-09 at 23:38 By Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. “This flaw allows apps on the same device to bypass Android security […]

New iPhone scam can empty bank accounts, experts warn — here’s how to protect your money 2026-04-09 at 21:58 By Brooke Steinberg Manipulative scammers use a sense of urgency and authority to escalate fear that consumers have when presented with a suggestion of fraud, theft or legal trouble. This article is an excerpt from Latest […]

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y’all, what is it good for? $45M in this case 2026-04-09 at 21:58 By Jessica Lyons Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more […]

World’s smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate 2026-04-09 at 21:58 By Paul Kunert C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home It’s going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly […]

Meta boots law firm ads seeking clients to sue over alleged Facebook, Instagram addiction 2026-04-09 at 20:42 By Marc Vartabedian The ads had been designed to find users of Meta products to join the growing number of lawsuits targeting the social-media giant. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

AWS: Agents shouldn’t be secret, so we built a registry for them 2026-04-09 at 20:42 By Thomas Claburn Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don’t always have visibility into what […]

‘Several dozen’ high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree 2026-04-09 at 20:16 By Jessica Lyons Possible link to Mr. Raccoon’s claimed Adobe break-in A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original […]

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller 2026-04-09 at 20:09 By Lindsay Clark ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including […]