Singapore Boffins Get Diverse SIEMs Singing in Harmony with Agentic Rule Translation
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Fudan University unveiled ARuleCon, an agentic retrieval‑augmented generation framework that translates security rules across five major SIEM platforms. The system pulls vendor documentation to resolve schema mismatches and runs Python‑based consistency checks to guard against semantic drift. Compared with generic LLMs and existing translation tools, ARuleCon delivers higher accuracy for complex, interlinked rules. The authors envision the tool easing SIEM migrations and reducing the manual burden on security operations centers.
Kids Say They Can Beat Age Checks by Drawing on a Fake Mustache
The UK’s Online Safety Act introduced stricter age‑verification rules, but research shows they are easily sidestepped. A survey of over 1,000 children and parents found 46% consider the checks simple to beat, with tactics ranging from fake birthdays to drawing...
Just in Time for Labour Day, China Makes It Illegal to Fire Humans if AI Takes Their Jobs
China’s Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled that dismissing employees because AI can perform their duties is illegal, setting a precedent for labor protection amid rapid automation. Samsung Electronics reported a record Q1 2025 profit of $39.9 bn, fueled by soaring memory...
What Type of 'C2 on a Sleep Cycle' Do They Leave Behind? Novel Chinese Spy Group Found in Critical Networks...
A newly identified China‑linked threat group, Shadow‑Earth‑053, has infiltrated at least a dozen critical networks across Poland, several Asian nations and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024. The actors leveraged unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, notably ProxyLogon, to install web shells and...
The Future of Software Development: Now with Less Software Development
Over 3,000 developers gathered at AI Dev 26 x SF in San Francisco to debate how artificial intelligence will reshape software engineering. Speakers from AMD, AWS, Actian and DeepLearning.AI argued that imagination, speed and spec‑driven development are the new bottlenecks, with AI agents poised to...
Friendster Rises From the Grave to Make Social Media Great Again
Mike Carson, a Philadelphia‑based programmer, acquired the Friendster.com domain for under $8,000 and launched a stripped‑down iOS app called Neo‑Friendster. The new service rejects ads, algorithms, and data sales, requiring users to tap phones together to add friends, encouraging in‑person...
AI Reality Check: Here's What Three Companies Learned Building Wallets, Homes, and Games
AI agents are rapidly moving from experimental tools to front‑line customer interfaces, as illustrated by Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom at Google Cloud Next. Citi launched the AI‑driven wealth adviser Citi Sky, an auditable, voice‑and‑video channel designed to capture a share of...
More Ancient Linux Device Support Faces the Chop
The Linux kernel community is accelerating the removal of legacy drivers to curb long‑standing bugs exposed by LLM‑powered vulnerability scanners. Andrew Lunn’s 18‑patch series targets 3Com Ethernet cards, several Xircom and PCMCIA devices, and newer but still two‑decade‑old adapters like...
Open Telemetry Founder Tools up for Project Graduation Party
At GrafanaCon in Barcelona, OpenTelemetry founder Ted Young announced that the project’s top priority for the next year is to make the ecosystem “boring” by stabilizing all components, especially instrumentation, to achieve full CNCF graduation. While SDKs and collectors are...
Anthropic Admits It Dumbed Down Claude when Trying to Make It Smarter
Anthropic disclosed that three March‑April adjustments unintentionally reduced Claude's output quality for Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. The changes—lowering default reasoning effort, a cache‑clear bug, and stricter system‑prompt length limits—prompted user complaints and were rolled back by early April....
Linux May Get a Hall Pass From One State Age-Check Bill, but Congress Plays Hall Monitor
System76 founder Carl Richell announced that Colorado's Age Attestation bill has been amended to explicitly exclude open‑source operating systems, applications, code repositories and container platforms. The change creates a template that Richell hopes to replicate in other states to protect...
Datacenter Boom Keeps Dirty Coal Plants Alive in the US
Datacenter construction in the United States, driven by AI and other high‑power workloads, is pushing electricity demand sharply upward. The surge is causing utilities to keep aging coal‑fired plants online, delaying roughly 40% of retirements scheduled through 2025. At the...
Workday, Rippling, and Slack Flunk Data Access Test, Claims Fivetran
Fivetran released an Open Data Infrastructure benchmark that rates enterprise software vendors on data coverage, performance, and egress fees. The study placed Workday at the bottom for performance, Rippling as the worst for coverage, and Slack among the lowest for...
Grafana Offers AI Assistant for Free, Warns Users Not to Go Mad
Grafana announced that its AI assistant, previously cloud‑only, is now free for open‑source and on‑premise users, though it requires a Grafana Cloud account for LLM connectivity. The company also unveiled Grafana 13, featuring dynamic dashboards, DORA‑aligned templates, a revamped query editor,...
Panasonic Creates Device-Locked QR Codes to Speed Facial Biometric Capture
Panasonic has introduced device‑locked QR codes that work only with authorized readers, streamlining facial‑biometric enrolment for its Site Management Service. The QR code carries registration data; when scanned by the system’s camera, it triggers a facial capture, eliminating the need...
Vibe Coding Upstart Lovable Denies Data Leak, Cites 'Intentional Behavior,' Then Throws HackerOne Under the Bus
AI coding platform Lovable, valued at $6.6 billion, faced a Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerability that allowed any free‑account user to view other users’ source code, database credentials, and chat history. The flaw, reported 48 days earlier, was first dismissed...
Cloudflare Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Cloudflare introduced Agent Memory, a managed service that stores and retrieves conversational context for AI agents when token space is limited. The service lets developers offload useful dialogue snippets and recall them on demand via a Cloudflare Worker binding or...
Atlassian’s New Data Collection Policy Protects Rich Customers While AI Eats the Rest
Atlassian will begin automatically collecting customer metadata from all cloud users on August 17, 2026, unless they purchase its highest‑priced Enterprise license or are exempt by law. For free and Standard tiers, in‑app content such as Confluence pages and Jira tickets is...
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...
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...
UK.gov's Top Tech Jobs Pay More than Prime Minister Earns
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is hiring three directors general whose salaries of £200,000‑£260,000 (about $250,000‑$325,000) exceed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s £170,000 (~$212,500) pay. The DG for Digital Products will lead a 650‑person team with a...
Nutanix Thinks some Azure Cloud Desktops Belong On-Prem to Make Them Usable
Nutanix announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) on‑premises, arguing that hybrid deployment reduces latency for high‑end users. The company downplays Microsoft’s Azure Local offering, saying large enterprises rarely adopt it. Nutanix also unveiled support for Cisco’s...
Researchers Didn’t Want to Glamorize Cybercrims. So They Roasted Them
Security firm Trellix launched the Dark Web Roast, a blog that lampoons ransomware gangs, exploit developers and other cyber‑crime crews with memes and snarky commentary. The effort follows calls from former CISA chief Jen Easterly and others to stop glorifying...
ServiceNow Allegedly Says Salesman 'Overachieved' And Is Not Entitled to Comp
ServiceNow is being sued by long‑time public‑sector sales leader Jorge Costa, who alleges the company refused to pay commissions on more than $27 million in federal contract sales. Costa says he is owed $761,974—double the $380,987 originally promised—for a $7.3 million deal...
Google Is to Journalism What Vikings Were to Monks. Now Their Man Will Run the BBC
Matt Brittin, former President of EMEA Business and Operations at Google, has been named the Director‑General designate of the BBC. The appointment pits a tech‑industry veteran against a public‑service broadcaster steeped in decades of editorial tradition. Brittin will inherit a...
AI Supply Chain Attacks Don’t Even Require Malware…just Post Poisoned Documentation
Andrew Ng's Context Hub service supplies up‑to‑date API documentation to AI coding agents, but its open‑pull‑request workflow lacks any content sanitisation. Security researcher Mickey Shmueli demonstrated a proof‑of‑concept where poisoned documentation caused agents to add malicious PyPI packages to generated code....
Jen Easterly, Cybersecurity's 'Relentless Optimist,' Hopes Feds Come Back to RSAC Next Year
Jen Easterly, former CISA director, took the helm of the RSA Conference (RSAC) as CEO, guiding the 2026 event to 43,000 attendees in San Francisco. She framed the moment as an inflection point where cyber and artificial intelligence are inseparable,...
Oracle: AI Agents Can Reason, Decide and Act - Liability Question Remains
Oracle announced Fusion Agentic Applications, embedding AI agents into its Fusion Cloud suite covering finance, HR, ERP and supply‑chain functions. The agents are marketed as capable of reasoning, deciding and acting autonomously to achieve defined business outcomes. Analysts caution that...
US Chip Testing Firm Shrugged Off Ransomware Hit as Minor - Then Came the Data Leak
Trio-Tech International, a California‑based semiconductor testing firm, disclosed a ransomware attack on its Singapore subsidiary that began on March 11. The breach initially seemed immaterial, but on March 18 the attackers exfiltrated data, prompting the company to label the event potentially material....
Jaguar Land Rover's Cyber Bailout Sets Worrying Precedent, Watchdog Warns
The UK government provided Jaguar Land Rover with a £1.5 billion loan guarantee after a ransomware attack that the Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates cost up to £1.9 billion to the British economy. The cyber watchdog warned that rescuing a single firm without clear criteria...
Anthropic's Claude Claws Its Way Towards the Top of the AI Market
Anthropic’s Claude model saw a 4.9% month‑over‑month rise in business subscriptions in February, while OpenAI’s share slipped 1.5% in the same period. The gap widened as Anthropic’s subscription share grew 2.8 percentage points in January, overtaking many first‑time enterprise adopters...
Storage Vendors Orbit the Nvidia Sun at GTC
At Nvidia’s GTC 2026, storage leaders Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix and Seagate unveiled new integrations with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and AI software stacks. Hitachi iQ now supports Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs and the STX reference architecture, while IBM demonstrated a...
Vite Team Boasts 10-30x Faster Builds with Rust-Powered Rolldown
Vite 8.0 replaces esbuild and Rollup with Rust‑built Rolldown, delivering 10‑30× faster builds while keeping the familiar plugin API. Rolldown, built atop the Oxc Rust library, is still in release‑candidate status, with minification in alpha. The new version is already...
AI Takes on Robotron: 2084, the Original Robot Uprising Simulator
Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, known for Task Manager, is training an AI model to dominate the 1982 arcade classic Robotron 2084 after previously teaching a system to master Atari’s Tempest. The project challenges the AI with split‑joystick controls, endless enemy waves...
Medical Equipment Techs Beg for Right-to-Repair Lifeline
A new Public Interest Research Group survey reveals that 83% of biomedical equipment technicians experience frequent delays in receiving parts, service keys, and manuals, while 70% say diagnostic‑tool restrictions often postpone patient care. OEMs commonly withhold passwords and overcharge for...
Operating Lightning Takes Down SocksEscort Proxy Network Blamed for Tens of Millions in Fraud
Operation Lightning, a coordinated effort by the FBI and law‑enforcement agencies in Austria, France, the Netherlands and six other nations, dismantled the SocksEscort residential proxy network. The operation seized 23 servers, 34 domains across seven countries and froze roughly $3.5 million...
Moody Humans Should Let AI Handle Bad Public Feedback First, Study Finds
Researchers found that automated review monitoring systems (ARMS) reduce public, angry replies to negative customer feedback and boost restaurant ratings. After ARMS adoption, average weekly Dianping scores rose by 0.358 stars, especially for low‑rated venues. The AI‑driven workflow creates structured...