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Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters 2026-04-21 at 14:08 By Connor Jones No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little London’s Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city’s pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn’t rely on live facial recognition (LFR).… This […]

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By Simon Sharwood Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.… This article is an

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By Simon Sharwood And China is loving it Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.… This article is

CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines 2026-04-21 at 12:56 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is

Task Manager’s CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it 2026-04-21 at 12:15 By Richard Speed Spoiler: There’s no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager’s CPU usage meter.…

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul 2026-04-21 at 11:30 By Carly Page Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing 2026-04-21 at 07:18 By Simon Sharwood Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the planned

Microsoft’s GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch 2026-04-21 at 03:57 By Thomas Claburn Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we’ve got a new deal that’s better for us. Microsoft’s GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites ‘intentional behavior,’ then throws HackerOne under the bus 2026-04-21 at 03:57 By Jessica Lyons A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users’ sensitive

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again 2026-04-21 at 02:17 By O’Ryan Johnson The struggles continue for Fermi America’s 17 GW bit barn ambitions It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17

World’s blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home 2026-04-21 at 02:17 By Matt Rosoff Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple Have you heard? Apple’s Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker’s business. He’ll become executive chairman and hand

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter 2026-04-21 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn’t paint entire picture of datacenter’s economic benefit When Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase’s datacenter expansion in

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin blasts customer’s satellite into wrong place 2026-04-21 at 00:01 By Marc Vartabedian Jeff Bezos’ space technology company Blue Origin placed a customer’s satellite in the wrong orbit on Sunday, sending that company’s stock tumbling Monday.  Shares of Nasdaq-listed AST SpaceMobile fell nearly 12% in premarket trading and is down roughly TK%

Apple names insider John Ternus to succeed Tim Cook as CEO 2026-04-21 at 00:01 By Reuters Cook, who has led Apple since 2011, will become the company’s executive chairman. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don’t even have installed yet 2026-04-21 at 00:00 By Thomas Claburn Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law One app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic’s Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver 2026-04-20 at 21:57 By Liam Proven Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software The feature list for Linux kernel 7.1 is taking shape, and a standout addition has already landed: a new read-write NTFS driver.… This article is an excerpt from

SGLang CVE-2026-5760 (CVSS 9.8) Enables RCE via Malicious GGUF Model Files 2026-04-20 at 21:57 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described

Palantir backs return of US military draft, slams ‘regressive’ cultures in 22-point manifesto 2026-04-20 at 20:37 By Thomas Barrabi Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp called on the US to pursue AI-powered weapons, reinstate the military draft and shy away from “regressive” cultures in a buzzy 22-point manifesto. This article is an excerpt from Latest

Smartphone pickpockets can easily block access lost device location tools — here’s the hack to stop them 2026-04-20 at 20:37 By Brooke Steinberg Keep this tip in your back pocket instead of your phone. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US 2026-04-20 at 20:37 By Connor Jones Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency A Scottish man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime crew has pleaded guilty in the US to a phishing and SIM-swap scheme that