Mozilla Throws Thunderbolt at Enterprise AI Providers
Mozilla’s MZLA subsidiary unveiled Thunderbolt, an open‑source AI client aimed at enterprises seeking data‑sovereignty. The client integrates with deepset’s Haystack platform and supports Model Context Protocol and Agent Client Protocol standards, allowing firms to run any LLM on‑premise or in private clouds. Thunderbolt is released on GitHub with optional hosted sign‑ups, positioning it as a self‑hosted alternative to Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise. Mozilla frames the launch as a push for open, controllable AI infrastructure across businesses.
NodeWeaver Says Its Perpetual Licensing Beats VMware’s Perpetual Price Hikes
NodeWeaver is marketing a perpetual‑license edge platform that runs on any off‑the‑shelf x86 server, positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to VMware after Broadcom’s price hikes. The solution eliminates per‑core subscription fees, promising 60‑80% savings and the ability to reuse...
Anthropic Squeezes Enterprises by Ejecting Bundled Tokens From Seat Deal
Anthropic has overhauled its enterprise seat pricing, replacing the former $20‑per‑employee plan that bundled token allowances with a flat monthly fee that no longer includes any usage credits. All token consumption is now billed at standard API rates, effectively turning...
Loud, Power Hungry - Opposition Grows to Datacenters as Maine Passes Bit Barn Ban
Maine lawmakers approved the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new datacenters that draw 20 megawatts or more, pausing approvals until November 1, 2027 pending the governor’s signature. The pause gives regulators time to assess the facilities’ impact on power grids, water use, noise,...
North Korea Targets macOS Users in Latest Heist
North Korean Lazarus Group offshoot Sapphire Sleet is targeting macOS users with a fake Zoom SDK update delivered via a malicious AppleScript. The campaign begins with LinkedIn recruiter scams aimed at finance professionals, then tricks victims into running the script, which...
If You Want Into Anthropic's Claude Club, You May Have to Show ID
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for select Claude features, using Persona Identities as its vendor. The verification prompts may appear at any time to enforce platform integrity, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations. Anthropic assures users that identity data...
DuckDB Uses RDBMS to Attack Classic 'Small Changes' Problem in Lakehouses
DuckDB Labs released DuckLake v1.0, a production‑ready lakehouse format that uses an embedded RDBMS as a metadata catalog to batch tiny data changes before flushing them to Parquet files. By storing row‑level inserts and deletes in DuckDB, PostgreSQL or SQLite, the...
Iran Has Something America Can only Dream Of: Cheap Broadband
A new Global Broadband Price League 2026 study finds Iran offering the world’s cheapest broadband at just $2.61 a month, while North America pays an average of $98.40. The United States ranks 167th out of 214 nations, with a typical...
Boeing Deliveries Soar Past Airbus for the First Time in Years, but This Is No Time to Unbuckle Your Seat...
Boeing shipped 143 commercial aircraft in the first quarter of 2026, outpacing Airbus's 114 deliveries for the first time in seven years. The surge was driven mainly by 737 production, while Boeing warned of a forthcoming slowdown due to wiring...
GitHub Invokes Spirit of Phabricator with Preview of Stacked PRs
GitHub has opened a private preview of Stacked PRs, a feature that lets developers build a series of dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged one at a time or all together. By encouraging smaller, logical units of...
Claude Is Getting Worse, According to Claude
Anthropic’s Claude, once a favorite among programmers, suffered a 48‑minute outage on April 13, 2026, affecting both Claude.ai and Claude Code. Simultaneously, developers report a sharp rise in quality complaints, with over 20 new issues logged in the first half of...
How ServiceNow Gets Customers to Gorge at the AI Trough
ServiceNow unveiled an AI‑centric product suite, reorganizing pricing into three tiers—Assistive AI, Task Automation, and Full Role Automation—to match customer maturity. The company introduced a Build Agent SDK that lets developers work from any coding environment, and a Context Engine...
Electronics Industry Says FCC's Foreign-Made Router Policy Is a Bit of a Mesh
The FCC’s new rule places foreign‑made consumer routers on a Covered List, allowing only those cleared by the DoD or DHS and committed to U.S. manufacturing to receive approval. The Global Electronics Association argues the policy is misguided, noting past...
Peace President's Iran War Piles More Pain on Already Battered PC Market
The United States’ escalating conflict with Iran is adding a new layer of cost pressure to an already strained PC market. IDC warns that freight premiums and soaring memory prices are driving PC prices higher and will push shipments lower...
Security Researchers Tricked Apple Intelligence Into Cursing at Users. It Could Have Been a Lot Worse
Security researchers at RSAC demonstrated that Apple Intelligence, the on‑device AI built into iPhones, iPads, Macs and Vision Pro, can be hijacked through prompt‑injection attacks. Using a Neural Exec technique combined with a Unicode right‑to‑left override, they forced the model to utter...
