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Daily Tech News 24 April 2026

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The French government agency that manages national IDs, passports, and immigration documents was hacked because of course it was. (Tech Crunch)

You can't paint a bigger target on your back than that, really.

ANTS - the agency is really called that - wouldn't say how many people were affected by the breach, but a hacker is suddenly offering an ANTS database with 19 million records for sale, so at a guess, around 19 million.
The command line tool for the Bitwarden password manager was compromised. (Socket)

So. Turns out maybe you can paint a bigger target on your back than just being a national identity register.

Tech News

The cloud sucks, so I am building a cloud. (Crawshaw)

Because AI, which also sucks:
Agents help to some degree. If you trust them with your credentials they will do a great job driving the AWS API for you (though occasionally it will delete your production DB).
I wish him luck. He is at least not a complete idiot.
Ubuntu 26.04 is here. (LWN)

Don't look at me, I voted for Devuan.
An Alberta startup is selling no-tech tractors for half the price of the regular stuff. (Wheelfront)

With reconditioned engines, yes, but when they say no-tech they mean no-tech - not even electronic fuel injection.
Meet Noscroll, Douglas Adams' Electric Monk. (Tech Crunch)

The Electric Monk - from the first Dirk Gently novel - was a device invented to watch television so you didn't have to.

It was intended as satire.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Roses are grey, violets are grey, I'm not colourblind it's just that kind of day.

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