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Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down 2026-05-01 at 15:18 By Connor Jones 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.… This article is an excerpt from […]

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway 2026-05-01 at 15:18 By Richard Speed But unlike most junkers, it’ll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at […]

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Top Five Sales Challenges Costing MSPs Cybersecurity Revenue

Top Five Sales Challenges Costing MSPs Cybersecurity Revenue 2026-05-01 at 15:18 By The managed security services market is projected to grow from $38.31 billion in 2025 to $69.16 billion by 2030[1], with cybersecurity being the fastest-growing sector[2]. Despite this opportunity, many MSPs leave revenue on the table because their go-to-market strategy fails to connect technical […]

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Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 2026-05-01 at 15:18 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of […]

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UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender 2026-05-01 at 13:58 By Carly Page Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2 […]

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Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft

Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft 2026-05-01 at 13:57 By A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence. The activity has been attributed to the GitHub […]

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Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed 2026-05-01 at 12:19 By SA Mathieson Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK’s now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration […]

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DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it 2026-05-01 at 11:30 By SA Mathieson Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it’s ‘putting things right’ The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing […]

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ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 2026-05-01 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic […]

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The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools

The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools 2026-05-01 at 03:42 By Jessica Lyons Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.… This article […]

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Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By Thomas Claburn Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google’s decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as […]

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Apple iPhone powers quarterly sales to $111B: ‘Demand was off the charts’

Apple iPhone powers quarterly sales to $111B: ‘Demand was off the charts’ 2026-05-01 at 01:57 By Reuters Sales of the iPhone, still the company’s best-selling product nearly 20 years after its introduction, were $56.99 billion. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Meta threatens to shut down Instagram, Facebook in New Mexico if judge orders ‘impractical’ kids protections

Meta threatens to shut down Instagram, Facebook in New Mexico if judge orders ‘impractical’ kids protections 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Thomas Barrabi The threat from Meta comes just weeks after a New Mexico jury slapped the company with $375 million in civil penalties and ruled that the company failed to protect kids from sexual predators […]

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Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica’s latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica’s latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Tobias Mann Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia’s 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica’s latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis.… […]

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Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Dan Robinson Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as […]

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Google’s fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

Google’s fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is […]

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