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I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

AI + ML12 Apr 2026 | 9

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight

FEATURE Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data

AI + ML12 Apr 2026 | 4

Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch

Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry

Databases10 Apr 2026 | 10

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly

Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2026 | 37

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures

AI + ML09 Apr 2026 | 23

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch

Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that

AI + ML09 Apr 2026 | 1

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them

Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI + ML09 Apr 2026 | 6

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize

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How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy

Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge

Exclusive Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything

Virtualization09 Apr 2026 |

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

On-Prem09 Apr 2026 | 34

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

Security09 Apr 2026 | 93

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools

Software09 Apr 2026 | 6

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns

DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension

Public Sector09 Apr 2026 | 18

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I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight

Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns

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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos

Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown

Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school

Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix

Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era

Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz

Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B

UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos

Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable

Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work

AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update

Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw

Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard

Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support

Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell