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Mark Zuckerberg is trying to wiggle out of testifying in person at a slew of social media trials 2026-05-04 at 14:31 By Thomas Barrabi The Instagram parent is headed to Calif. federal court this summer as part of federal multidistrict litigation – a bid to streamline more than 2,400 lawsuits filed by school districts, state […]

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked 2026-05-04 at 14:30 By Thomas Claburn Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so […]

Critical cPanel Vulnerability Weaponized to Target Government and MSP Networks 2026-05-04 at 14:30 By A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the […]

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner 2026-05-04 at 14:03 By Simon Sharwood Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s […]

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text […]

Inside the Modern Warehouse: Securing the World’s New Front Door 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Through perimeter protection, layered safety measures and systemic security, security leaders can protect an essential element of the supply chain: warehouses. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. The crackdown was led […]

Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout 2026-05-04 at 06:05 By Simon Sharwood Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns […]

Microsoft’s turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better 2026-05-04 at 02:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak – what’s wrong at Redmond? kettle  When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. … […]

Teen’s TikTok videos used to advertise ‘nasty’ hookup app, calling her ‘friend with benefit’: lawsuit 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Brandon Cruz Kaelyn Lunglhofer, a student at the University of Tennessee, is suing Quantum Communications and its dating app, “Meete,” after the British Virgin Islands-based company ran suggestive ads using stolen TikTok videos to boost its […]

Energy group asks Congress to investigate potentially foreign-backed campaigns against AI data centers 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Fox News Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at opposition to data centers springing up across the country. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post […]

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark 2026-05-03 at 16:18 By Tobias Mann In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups […]

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’ 2026-05-03 at 14:21 By Dan Robinson Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can […]

Job’s a good ‘un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise 2026-05-03 at 12:54 By Lindsay Clark PAC: Now why can’t everybody else in public sector do it like this? Parliament’s spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from […]

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV 2026-05-03 at 10:18 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 […]

‘Never f–king guess’: AI agent confesses why it went haywire and deleted company database 2026-05-03 at 00:53 By Ben Cost More like Clod AI. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe – here’s how to roll your own local AI coding agents 2026-05-02 at 15:20 By Tobias Mann and Thomas Claburn Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based […]

UK drivers’ agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs 2026-05-02 at 12:59 By Carly Page Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it The DVSA’s driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.… This article is an excerpt […]

Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access 2026-05-02 at 12:25 By Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source code. It said it “recently identified” the compromise of its source code repository and that it began working with “leading forensic experts” […]

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt 2026-05-02 at 11:30 By Carly Page Britain’s cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it’s arriving all at once Britain’s cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of […]