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Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with … hard-to-read messages 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Richard Speed Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Microsoft’s update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings – […]

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for ‘tens of millions’ of AWS Graviton cores 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Tobias Mann After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services’ Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the

It’s a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well 2026-04-24 at 16:24 By Simon Sharwood OpenAI’s first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia  Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic’s

Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine 2026-04-24 at 16:23 By The AI Agent Authority Gap – From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply

26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases 2026-04-24 at 16:23 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. “Once launched, these apps redirect

How an FCC squabble over paperwork is jeopardizing a rural expansion of wireless services 2026-04-24 at 14:36 By Charles Gasparino Brevet Capital, with around $2.5 billion in assets under management, has been locked in what appears to be a strange, two-year bureaucratic snafu with regulators. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami 2026-04-24 at 14:36 By Carly Page Oval Office resident rants about Blighty’s Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a “big tariff” if it doesn’t scrap its tax on

The grim warning sign from AI influencers that keep racking up comments from lonely men: ‘Societal loss of humanity’ 2026-04-24 at 13:18 By Georgia Worrell Roses are red/ violets are blue/ these girls are AI/ would they fool you, too? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By SA Mathieson Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union’s biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system’s

Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room 2026-04-24 at 11:37 By SA Mathieson Nothing says ‘We want honest opinions’ like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three

Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Connor Jones Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for

LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city’s public EV chargers 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Simon Sharwood Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Black Hat Asia  Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed

Succeeding an Underwhelming Leader 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Security leaders discuss taking over leadership after an underperforming leader. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter 2026-04-24 at 03:01 By Thomas Claburn System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.… This article is an excerpt from The

With jaw-dropping $1 trillion valuation, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in market cap race 2026-04-24 at 02:17 By Marc Vartabedian Desperate buyers scooping up a dwindling supply of Anthropic shares have vaulted the AI giant’s valuation on some trading platforms to $1 trillion – eclipsing OpenAI’s market capitalization in a sea change in the AI race.  The

Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: ‘I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code’ 2026-04-24 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors … it worked EXCLUSIVE  It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.… This article is an excerpt from The

Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why 2026-04-24 at 00:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major

Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain 2026-04-24 at 00:08 By Thomas Claburn Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing Anthropic’s release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.… This