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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

Meta to ax 8,000 jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI and white-collar bloodbath picks up 2026-04-23 at 23:49 By Ariel Zilber The Facebook parent disclosed the layoffs in a memo sent to staff Thursday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Home Depot says ‘bye’ to a traditional customer service feature in favor of AI 2026-04-23 at 23:19 By Brooke Steinberg Home Depot is letting go of a traditional store feature and introducing a new customer support system. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn 2026-04-23 at 23:19 By Jessica Lyons All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and

UNC6692 Impersonates IT Helpdesk via Microsoft Teams to Deploy SNOW Malware 2026-04-23 at 21:33 By A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts. “As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes 2026-04-23 at 21:17 By Dan Robinson Three vendors matched to three sites The US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience

Microsoft offers voluntary employee buyouts for first time as it ramps up AI spending 2026-04-23 at 20:49 By Reuters Slowing cloud unit growth and investor concern over its heavy reliance on OpenAI have made Microsoft one of the worst-performing Big Tech stocks this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

Amazon stripping hundreds of employees’ job titles — and new buzzword is rattling workforce 2026-04-23 at 20:49 By Reuters Amazon boss Andy Jassy has embarked on a broader project to reduce corporate bureaucracy, including an internal hotline for calling out excessive red tape. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York