11 April 2026

Puppy post: Theo is recovering well from "the snip"

 

Dear little theo had "the operation" on Thursday 9th April. Many thanks to Downland Vets - for the excellent care they provided!

He's a little trooper - recovering really well already. When we picked him up on Thursday afternoon - he was still zonked from the GA they gave him. Friday he was up and about. No more cone of shame - he's got this really funky blue body suit! Get well soon buddy x

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What is Claude Mythos & why Anthropic won’t let anyone use it

An Anthropic engineer with zero security training asked Claude Mythos to find remote code execution bugs overnight. He woke up to a complete working exploit.

That’s the kind of model Anthropic announced on April 7. Claude Mythos Preview is, by every published benchmark, the most capable AI model ever built. It scores 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 97.6% on the USAMO math olympiad, and 83.1% on CyberGym. It found zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser. Fully autonomously. No human guidance needed.

Anthropic’s response to building it: don’t release it. Instead, the company launched Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity defense initiative that gives the model to Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, CrowdStrike, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Broadcom, Palo Alto Networks, and the Linux Foundation. About 40 additional organizations that maintain critical software infrastructure also get access. Anthropic is committing $100 million in usage credits and $4 million in direct donations to open-source security organizations.

This is the first time a leading AI lab has built a frontier model and simultaneously decided the public cannot use it. READ MORE...

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IT hardware, software, cars, motorcycles - what's the common thread?

Scottish Car Clan:  After just 3 years Nissan have disabled features which helped to market and sell their cars.  In this video I discuss how this is an issue we're likely to see more of as cars become more reliant on connected services and updates.

This is something I see in my day job and as a motorcyclist. Features which were supplied when you originally purchased the product - are then removed at a future point. Still want or need those features? The answer is somewhere between "tough" and "better pay us a subscription then". Shabby...

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09 April 2026

Reading for Today: On happiness by C.S.Lewis


What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could “be like gods” - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God.

Out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history: money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.


08 April 2026

Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour


Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini-powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page. 

AI Overviews has had a rough time since its 2024 launch, attracting user ire over its scattershot accuracy, but it’s getting better and usually provides the right answer. That’s a low bar, though. A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to assess the accuracy of AI Overviews, finding it’s right 90 percent of the time. 

The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day.

www.arstechnica.com


07 April 2026

Microsoft Windows - Secure Boot key expiry coming soon!


Back in early 2024, Microsoft announced that it was updating Secure Boot keys as they were going to become 15 years old in 2026, which is also when they are set to expire. As such, in June last year, the company shared a timeline of the change.

At the time, Microsoft had informed that new keys and certificates would be installed on user PCs via Windows Update, and in fact, the company has already rolled those out with the February 2026 Patch Tuesday updates.

So if you have got the latest Windows Updates installed you should be fine. Microsoft says that the new certs must be installed before June 2026, so make sure to get the February update or a later update as they are cumulative and will pack the necessary Secure Boot upgrade as well. READ MORE...

Need advice on the above? Contact Donline.

www.neowin.net


Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it has also been getting dinged on social media over Copilot’s terms of use, which appear to have been last updated on October 24, 2025.

Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the company warned. “It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” READ MORE & CAVEAT EMPTOR!

www.techcrunch.com