CPUID breach exposed CPU-Z and HWMonitor users to Malware

If you downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from the Official CPUID website on April 9 or 10, 2026, you may want to stop what you are doing and take a closer look at your PC (or contact Donline). CPUID confirmed that attackers compromised part of its download infrastructure which was first reported by DMKiller on Reddit The attack briefly replaced legitimate download links with malicious ones in a six-hour window. The company says the issue has been fixed and that its original signed files were not altered.

This hack matters because CPU-Z and HWMonitor are trusted Windows tools. The attack exploited that trust, making it that much more dangerous. READ MORE...

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If "Black Lives Matter" - then why is no one talking about this?

 

Stop the violence. Start the healing. Millions of Christians have been driven from their homes by violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. Nobody is talking about it.

"We feel ignored, forgotten. Like we are in the dark," says Pastor Barnabas from Nigeria, who lives in a displacement camp after narrowly surviving a violent attack.

The African church is calling upon the global community to ensure that Christians and other vulnerable individuals in sub-Saharan Africa are treated with dignity and respect through:

Protection: Providing robust protection from violent militant attacks

Justice: Ensuring justice through fair prosecutions of the attackers

Restoration: Bring healing and restoration to all affected communities

This petition is intended to be presented to the African Union, United Nations, EU and local governments around the world in 2026. Thank you for adding your voice.

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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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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.

By: C.S. Lewis

From Mere Christianity

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.

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