Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
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The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network
Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
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14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns
Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
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Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Problems viewing products and checking out.
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Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
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New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
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New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
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Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds
Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.
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Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
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Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
This story has been retracted
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
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Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
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Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
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OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads
Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
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AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
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Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.
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Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.
ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.
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Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.
The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.
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