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Amazon Faces Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes Cripple Middle East Data Centers
AWS

Amazon Faces Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes Cripple Middle East Data Centers

Amazon Web Services says recovery from drone strikes that hit its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be measured in months, leaving customers in the region facing prolonged disruption and prompting a broader rethink of investments in Middle East infrastructure. The attacks, part of a wider bout of regional hostilities, knocked core compute racks offline, triggered flooding when fire suppression systems activated, and damaged cooling systems—problems…

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Cloudflare makes post‑quantum IPsec generally available
Cloudflare

Cloudflare makes post‑quantum IPsec generally available

For years, the internet’s move to post‑quantum cryptography focused first on TLS, but site‑to‑site networking has lagged behind. Today Cloudflare is announcing general availability of post‑quantum encryption for Cloudflare IPsec, bringing hybrid ML‑KEM protection to WAN tunnels so organizations can defend against “harvest‑now, decrypt‑later” attacks without buying specialized hardware. This update moves another critical piece of enterprise networking closer to a quantum‑resistant future as Cloudflare continues its push toward full…

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How the Google Gemini CLI Flaw Turned CI/CD Pipelines into Remote Code Execution Risk
Artificial Intelligence

How the Google Gemini CLI Flaw Turned CI/CD Pipelines into Remote Code Execution Risk

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Google Gemini CLI and its associated GitHub Action exposed a startling weakness in how AI tooling can interact with developer infrastructure. Rated with the maximum CVSS score of 10.0, the bug allowed unprivileged external actors to execute commands on the machines running CI/CD workflows. This wasn’t a prompt-injection trick against a model; it was an infrastructure-level failure that allowed malicious configuration…

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Email threat landscape: Q1 2026 trends and insights
Cybersecurity

Email threat landscape: Q1 2026 trends and insights

During the first quarter of 2026, email-based threats remained pervasive and dynamic. Microsoft Threat Intelligence recorded roughly 8.3 billion phishing messages across January–March, with monthly volumes edging down from about 2.9 billion in January to 2.6 billion in March. While total volume showed only slight decline, the quarter revealed important shifts in delivery mechanisms and attacker behavior: link-based attacks dominated, QR code phishing accelerated rapidly, CAPTCHA-gated campaigns resurged with new…

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CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2026-32202 after zero-click NTLM hash leak is reported
Cybersecurity

CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2026-32202 after zero-click NTLM hash leak is reported

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to secure Windows systems against a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-32202 after cybersecurity firm Akamai reported it as a zero-click NTLM hash leak left behind when Microsoft incompletely patched a February remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-21510). CISA added CVE-2026-32202 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog and mandated that Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies patch affected endpoints and servers…

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Agents, Stripe Projects, and zero-friction Cloudflare provisioning
Cloudflare

Agents, Stripe Projects, and zero-friction Cloudflare provisioning

Agents can now take a project from idea to live production on Cloudflare without a human manually opening a dashboard, entering card details, or copying API keys. In partnership with Stripe’s new Projects flow, Cloudflare built a protocol that lets an orchestrator platform (like Stripe Projects) attest to a signed‑in user’s identity, provide a payment token, and expose a catalog of available services. An agent using that catalog can provision…

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Accenture’s Big Bet: Rolling Copilot Out to 743,000 Employees and What It Means for Enterprise AI
Microsoft

Accenture’s Big Bet: Rolling Copilot Out to 743,000 Employees and What It Means for Enterprise AI

Accenture is expanding its use of Microsoft’s Copilot 365 AI assistant across its entire global workforce—about 743,000 people—a move that marks one of the largest enterprise deployments of the tool to date. The companies did not disclose financial terms, but the scale of the rollout sends a clear signal: major consultancies are moving from pilot projects to firmwide adoption, betting that AI can reshape day-to-day work and client services. Why…

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Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
Artificial Intelligence

Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space

The race to keep massive AI workloads powered around the clock has led Meta to sign a capacity reservation agreement with Overview Energy, a startup developing spacecraft that collect solar energy in space and convert it to near-infrared light beamed at large terrestrial solar farms. The deal — for up to 1 gigawatt of capacity — is a notable early commercial commitment for a technology that, if it scales, could…

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Microsoft’s New Group Policy to Remove Windows 11 Copilot from Managed Devices
Azure

Microsoft’s New Group Policy to Remove Windows 11 Copilot from Managed Devices

Microsoft has quietly given IT teams a precise tool to remove the consumer-facing Copilot app from managed Windows 11 machines. Rolled into the April 2026 Patch Tuesday updates and bundled with Windows 11 version 25H2 (KB5083769 and later), the RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy lets administrators trigger a one-time uninstall of the Copilot app on devices that meet a small set of conditions. The change reflects a broader push to give enterprises control…

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Microsoft Outlook.com Hits Service Degradation: What Happened and How to Prepare
Azure

Microsoft Outlook.com Hits Service Degradation: What Happened and How to Prepare

On April 27, 2026, Microsoft acknowledged a service degradation affecting Outlook.com after users across multiple regions reported problems accessing their inboxes. The company’s Microsoft 365 Status account on X confirmed intermittent issues, and Microsoft’s service health dashboard classified the incident as a “Service Degradation” rather than a full outage. For many organizations and individual users, the disruption meant delayed email delivery, pages that failed to load, or an inability to…

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Keeping Pace with the OpenAI API Changelog: What Developers Need to Know
Artificial Intelligence

Keeping Pace with the OpenAI API Changelog: What Developers Need to Know

The OpenAI API changelog is more than a list of dates and bullet points — it's a running record of capabilities, fixes, and platform-level decisions that shape how you design, test, and operate integrations. Skimming it every few days can turn surprise breakages into planned migrations, and opportunistic features into competitive advantages. This post walks through recent highlights from the changelog, explains what they mean in practice, and offers a…

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Google’s Big Bet: Up to $40 Billion Headed to Anthropic
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Big Bet: Up to $40 Billion Headed to Anthropic

Google is preparing to invest a headline-grabbing sum in Anthropic — at least $10 billion, with the potential to rise to $40 billion if the startup meets certain performance milestones. The deal follows a recent $5 billion commitment from Amazon and collectively values Anthropic at roughly $350 billion. This funding round underscores how hyperscalers are using capital, cloud services, and specialized chips to forge strategic ties with AI startups that…

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