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Meta to cut 8,000 jobs — 10% of workforce — in major bloodbath next month: report 2026-04-17 at 23:56 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce in a companywide bloodletting on May 20 – with even more cuts to follow later in the year, according to a report […]

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams 2026-04-17 at 23:56 By Thomas Claburn The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on

Go with the flow: Carmaker debuts voice-controlled ‘in-vehicle toilet’ 2026-04-17 at 22:36 By Asia Grace If you gotta go while on-the-go, urine in luck.  This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack 2026-04-17 at 20:48 By Carly Page Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set to meet White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles amid AI fight: reports 2026-04-17 at 20:03 By Marc Vartabedian Dario Amodei is scheduled to meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in the West Wing on Friday – a potential sign that the Anthropic chief executive and the Trump

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker 2026-04-17 at 20:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg

Former UK Ambassador, Linked to Epstein, Failed Security Vetting Yet Received Clearance 2026-04-17 at 20:03 By Peter Mandelson, a former British ambassador to the United States, failed security vetting clearance before taking his position.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems 2026-04-17 at 18:55 By Richard Speed We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit Microsoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched 2026-04-17 at 17:52 By Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHammer (requires GitHub sign-in), RedSun, and UnDefend, all of

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe’s jinxed Mars rover mission 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By Richard Speed Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By Richard Speed Starts new one on boot loops More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as “resolved.”… This article is

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons to Resign 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By ICE acting director Todd Lyons is set to resign at the end of May.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in

Would you like fries with that terminal? 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn’t Bork!Bork!Bork!  It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Connor Jones University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Lindsay Clark Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned 2026-04-17 at 13:45 By Carly Page Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 2026-04-17 at 10:12 By Thomas Claburn Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts 2026-04-17 at 10:11 By An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the