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World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace Updated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba....

Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about....

EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process -a bet on silicon that doesn't exist....

Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong....

Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim GCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices....

Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles....

Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who've taught us how not to secure a server. If you've ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we'll be talking about your cyber equivalent....

Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT)....

NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely....

Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa Kubernetes issued a new release called Haru" on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software....

Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method' Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month....

Hackpocalypse deferred Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe....

New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028 SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD....

Make your model smarter through self-surveillance Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it....

Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default....

Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress....

Happy Earth Day! Datacenter growth in the US is helping keep aging fossil-fuel plants online longer, slowing the shift to a cleaner grid and worsening air pollution, according to new research from a group of environmental nonprofits....

Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees Workday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for enterprise data movement, according to a new industry benchmark tracking the speeds needed to power analytics, machine learning, and AI agents....

Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice If you're stuck without access to tech support - say, half way to the Moon - then you're better off with a single install of Thunderbird than any number of Outlooks....

'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination The Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now....

Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision Initial reports have confirmed NASA's assessment that the Orion heat shield kept the Artemis II crew safe during re-entry....

Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users - though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they shouldn't use it too much....

Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery Framework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, has spruced its line-up with a completely redesigned 13-inch model sporting the latest Intel CPUs, new components for its 16-inch system, and a dock that lets users add devices like a desktop graphics card....

As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way Google Cloud Next Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape, rebranding and expanding its Vertex AI developer platform into what it now calls the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform....

Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."...

x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs....

Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information....

Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital....

Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft's objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for trial....

Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query language SQL....

Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth....

Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points....

Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic's bug-finding Mythos" AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders....

Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees' work computers....

Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it's only a test for a small number of users....

John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been OPINION Apple's pending leadership transition affords the company a rare opportunity to return to its roots and once again serve as a source of inspiration instead of frustration....

NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference....

Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint The latest point release of Zorin OS is here, as an interesting alternative to Linux Mint for those still searching for a replacement for Windows 10 as the dust settles over the ruins....

Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths....

CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes....

Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026....

Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions....

Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes A new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memory management. The latter is a critical issue to devs and follows complaints of memory leaks causing problems in production....

Change is glacial, but the direction is clear It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market....

Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same....

One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume Blue Origin's New Glenn loss of a satellite has been classed as a "mishap" by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), triggering a mandatory investigation....

An $899 CPU? In this economy? Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have our answer....

CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure....

Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum....

No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little London's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem... and it doesn't rely on live facial recognition (LFR)....