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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

GameStop preparing an offer to buy eBay in effort to boost market value: report 2026-05-02 at 03:12 By Reuters GameStop has been quietly building a stake in eBay’s shares ahead of a potential offer. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof 2026-05-02 at 00:59 By Rikki Schlott “You don’t have to have a 12,000 IQ or a 1,200 IQ or even 120 IQ to fool most human beings,” Glenn Harlan Reynolds argues. This article is an excerpt

ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs 2026-05-02 at 00:59 By O’Ryan Johnson CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts ‘largest ever quarter for competitive displacements’ The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call

30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign 2026-05-01 at 22:38 By A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a “phishing relay” to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts