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Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try 2026-04-13 at 18:03 By Richard Speed AI gubbins still there, just tucked under ‘Writing Tools’ Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

Microsoft attempts to untangle ‘confusing’ Windows Insider program 2026-04-13 at 17:32 By Richard Speed Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Booking.com warns reservation data may have checked out with intruders 2026-04-13 at 17:32 By Carly Page Travel giant says names, contact details, dates, and hotel messages potentially exposed Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can’t quite keep

Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill 2026-04-13 at 17:31 By Lindsay Clark Department putting systems in place to manage ‘restrictive licensing practices’ A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced “challenges” in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five

⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More 2026-04-13 at 17:31 By Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Dan Robinson MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace’s Skyhammer system at home and abroad Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in

Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Connor Jones Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwords Basic-Fit, Europe’s largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.… This article is

Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Carly Page Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machines Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of ‘Pay or leak’ 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Carly Page Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn’t so much hack its way in as walk

Booking.com Customer Data Hacked, Exposed 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Booking.com is warning customers that their information may have been exposed.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn’t 2026-04-13 at 15:44 By Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime

Digital sovereignty isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the future 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies Opinion  You want to know who’s even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are

AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By Rupert Goodwins Not viral as in cat videos. Viral as in we need a vaccine Opinion  For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By Carly Page Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement NHS England is spending £46,000 on “benchmarking” as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector’s biggest software deals.… This

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By Simon Sharwood Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

North Korea’s APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building

OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps led to the download of the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. “Out of an abundance of

Why the world’s biggest truck makers are ditching batteries for heavy-duty hauling 2026-04-13 at 06:48 By Fox News Toyota Motor Corporation, Daimler Truck and Volvo Group are teaming up on hydrogen fuel cells for heavy-duty trucks. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable 2026-04-12 at 22:20 By Thomas Claburn AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that Vibe coding works. I wish it didn’t. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight 2026-04-12 at 13:59 By Tobias Mann Most customers don’t need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won’t pirate their proprietary data FEATURE  Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from