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Monday, 20 April 2026

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

Fri 17 Apr 2026
 
 

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks

Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day

Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

Sat 18 Apr 2026

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Starts new one on boot loops

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Would you like fries with that terminal?

Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't

Fri 17 Apr 2026

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Sat 18 Apr 2026

I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns

Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity

Sun 19 Apr 2026

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission

Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

Sun 19 Apr 2026

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure

Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups

Fri 17 Apr 2026

Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay

Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us?

Sun 19 Apr 2026
  
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