

Pentagon inks classified AI deals with seven tech giants, Anthropic excluded
The Department of Defense has officially reached agreements with seven major technology firms to integrate their artificial intelligence capabilities into the military's most sensitive classified networks. The move marks a massive escalation in the Pentagon's "AI-first" strategy while pointedly excluding former partner Anthropic following a high-profile clash over ethical guardrails. Editorial credit: gguy / Shutterstock The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that SpaceX, OpenAI, G


Critical cPanel bug leaves 1.5 million servers vulnerable to total takeover
Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm over a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in cPanel & WHM, the world’s most popular web hosting control panel, which has left an estimated 1.5 million servers exposed to complete administrative takeover. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-41940 with a near-perfect critical severity score of 9.8/10, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass login security and gain full "root" access to servers. This level of access gran


AWS announces plans to hire 11,000 tech staff following recent 30,000 layoffs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman announced this week that the cloud giant plans to hire 11,000 software development engineers and interns throughout 2026. Interestingly, the hiring spree comes just weeks after Amazon completed a massive restructuring that saw approximately 30,000 corporate roles eliminated across late 2025 and early 2026. The job cuts, which hit AWS, retail, and Prime Video units particularly hard, were framed by Amazon leadership as a way to reduce


Tech resurgence: Nasdaq records 15.3% monthly surge in best performance since 2020 pandemic recovery
Wall Street closed out an historic April as the Nasdaq Composite surged 15.3%, marking its strongest monthly gain since the initial post-COVID recovery in April 2020. The rally, fueled by a massive capital expenditure blitz in artificial intelligence and a resilient earnings season, pushed major tech indexes back to record territory despite global geopolitical tensions. Editorial credit: andersphoto / Shutterstock The S&P 500 followed suit with a 10.4% monthly increase, its m


IT on autopilot: Kaseya unveils industry’s first "Agentic" IT management platform
12. MSP Kaseya has officially moved the goalposts for IT automation, debuting what it calls the industry’s first Agentic IT Management Platform. Announced at the Kaseya Connect Global event on April 28, 2026, the new system shifts away from simple "AI assistants" toward autonomous digital specialists capable of running entire IT workflows without human intervention. The platform is powered by Kaseya Intelligence, a new engine trained on a massive proprietary dataset including























































