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Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work
25 April 2026 @ 1:07 pm
AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…
Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data
25 April 2026 @ 9:28 am
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
24 April 2026 @ 9:25 pm
Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1 Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps
24 April 2026 @ 5:22 pm
New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…
Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs
24 April 2026 @ 4:34 pm
What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…
US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit
24 April 2026 @ 4:03 pm
Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface
24 April 2026 @ 3:35 pm
Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. …
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network
24 April 2026 @ 2:46 pm
Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.…
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
24 April 2026 @ 2:15 pm
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…
Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party
24 April 2026 @ 1:43 pm
We gotta get boring to get graduated Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…