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Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Liam Proven Yep, you read that right. And there’s no official Linux client from Google Canonical has just released the beta of the next Ubuntu LTS – but what’s grabbed the attention of many is that it features […]

Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Thomas Claburn ‘Converting AI capability into sustainable, auditable revenue remains a challenge’ says PwC survey Software companies are leaving money on the table because their core financial systems haven’t kept pace with the way they sell pay-per-use services, which often

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits ‘way faster than expected’ 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Tim Anderson Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows Users of Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding assistant, are experiencing high token usage and early quota exhaustion, disrupting their work.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Carly Page Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios One of npm’s most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer’s account and slipped a

The AI Arms Race – Why Unified Exposure Management Is Becoming a Boardroom Priority 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By The cybersecurity landscape is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. What is emerging is not simply a rise in the number of vulnerabilities or tools, but a dramatic increase in speed. Speed of attack, speed of exploitation, and

Silver Fox Expands Asia Cyber Campaign with AtlasCross RAT and Fake Domains 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Chinese-speaking users are the target of an active campaign that uses typosquatted domains impersonating trusted software brands to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan named AtlasCross RAT. “The operation covers VPN clients, encrypted messengers, video conferencing tools, cryptocurrency

Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean 2026-03-31 at 12:46 By Liam Proven Aimed at blind tablet users, although it’s winning sighted fans too TapType is a new Android keyboard that’s invisible. You can’t see it – but that’s OK, neither can its developer nor some of its target users.… This article is

Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value 2026-03-31 at 11:33 By Tim Anderson Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable The ISO C++ committee (WG21) has approved the C++26 standard, described by committee member Herb Sutter as the most compelling release since C++11, and including Contracts, despite opposition to the

Memory-makers’ shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea 2026-03-31 at 11:22 By Simon Sharwood Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI’s memory use, but don’t assume that means less demand for DRAM The high cost of memory has sideswiped the technology industry, causing server

Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account 2026-03-31 at 11:21 By The popular HTTP client known as Axios has suffered a supply chain attack after two newly published versions of the npm package introduced a malicious dependency. Versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 of Axios have been found to inject “plain-crypto-js” version 4.2.1

Tax Season Means Phishing Season: How Individuals and Businesses Can Protect Themselves 2026-03-31 at 11:00 By Tax season-related phishing attacks have gotten more sophisticated as threat actors increasingly leverage generative AI.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban 2026-03-31 at 06:17 By Simon Sharwood Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Australia’s eSafety Commission is “moving into an enforcement stance” after finding that Meta, YouTube, TikTok and

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash 2026-03-30 at 23:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Letting Copilot alter others’ PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager Microsoft has done a 360. Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot’s ability to stick ads – what it calls “tips” – into any pull request

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS 2026-03-30 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS OpenAI talks up data security for its AI services, yet Check Point says that ChatGPT allowed data to leak through a DNS side channel before the flaw was fixed.…

OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability 2026-03-30 at 23:16 By A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. “A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration

Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach 2026-03-30 at 20:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and more infosec in brief  The cybercrime crew linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack has struck again, this time pushing malicious Telnyx package versions to PyPI

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems 2026-03-30 at 20:49 By Dan Robinson Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 US PC shipments are set to fall by 13 percent this year thanks to the ongoing memory and storage crisis, and things

FCC says it’s making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines 2026-03-30 at 20:37 By Dan Robinson But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut America’s telecoms regulator has unveiled new measures to speed the transition to modern high-speed networks, but critics argue the

DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials 2026-03-30 at 20:14 By A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad. “It likely uses AI-assisted obfuscation and process injection to evade static scanning, while credential theft starts

AI dangerously close to solving test that only the brightest minds on Earth could: ‘Human expertise still matters’ 2026-03-30 at 19:21 By Ben Cost Tech experts claim they’re a year away from beating “Humanity’s Last Exam” (HLE) — a supposedly unsolvable test for bots as well as most people. This article is an excerpt from