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  1. CIO

    I audited an award-winning AI project. The case study left out the cloud bill

    I have audited enough celebrated technology rollouts to notice a quiet omission across the industry: nobody talks much about what happens to the unit economics once the pilot ends and the software enters daily production. I have anonymized the company and changed identifying details for...

  2. CSO Online

    FBI: FortiBleed attackers can lock organizations out of their own firewalls

    Details from an FBI investigation into the ongoing FortiBleed attacks reveal that victims could be locked out of their own firewall even as attackers remain logged in. After gaining access to a backend server left exposed by the attackers, the FBI and US Secret Service have shared new details of an...

  3. Help Net Security

    Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands

    Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its predecessor. The company has given it stricter cybersecurity safeguards than Haiku 4.5, though lighter ones than its more...

  4. Security Week

    Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime

    The cybersecurity startup will invest in product innovation, agentic research, and employee base expansion. The post Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  5. The Next Web

    Manus raises more than $500M in first funding round since Meta exit

    Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent startup Manus, said that it has closed a funding round of more than $500 million. This would be the first raise since Meta’s $2 billion-plus purchase of Manus was undone on Beijing’s orders. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round. Existing investors...

  6. Wired

    How Massive Is Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself

    WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.

  7. Wired

    Spend Elon Musk’s Money

    What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

  8. Infosecurity Magazine

    Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks

    CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms

  9. CIO

    Why product management’s org placement shapes its success

    In my experience, where you place product management is as critical as whom you hire and how you train them. A team expected to serve the whole organization needs the influence and independence to act for the whole organization. My view comes from working in companies ranging from trillion-dollar...

  10. CIO Dive

    Top CIO events for 2027

    Throughout the year, tech executives will be able to compare notes across the most pressing IT trends, from AI cost management to cyber resilience.

  11. Wired

    Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

  12. The Hacker News

    Wazza Phishkit Targets Banking, Government, and Manufacturing Across the US, EU, and Australia

    Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic controls into the infrastructure that delivers the phishing page itself. ANY.RUN has identified Wazza, a...

  13. The Next Web

    TikTok gave young users a placebo safety tool, New York lawsuit alleges

    According to a new unsealed filing in New York’s lawsuit, TikTok gave thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. Reuters reported the allegations on October 7, after a judge ordered the filings unsealed. They appear in an amended complaint that New York...

  14. Help Net Security

    Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers

    Thousands of hijacked servers have been looking up their command and control (C2) server in a poem posted on GitHub, according to Black Lotus Labs. The malware reading it, dubbed PoeLLM, breaks into exposed AI services and open-source tools, mines cryptocurrency on them and uses them to hunt for...

  15. Security Week

    TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws

    SEC Consult has published technical details on vulnerabilities mentioned in a complaint filed by several US states. The post TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  16. CSO Online

    AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior, seeking to address security risks as enterprises give autonomous systems greater access to applications and data. The tool, called Strands Box...

  17. The Next Web

    CrowdStrike links South Korean bank breaches to AI tools and a China suspect

    The person behind a wave of cyberattacks on South Korean banks may be a 26-year-old living in China’s Guangdong province, US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says. The suspect has not been named or charged, and South Korean authorities have not identified anyone. CrowdStrike set out its findings in a...

  18. Wired

    Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2026, Tested by WIRED

    We dropped them, tossed them in bags, and cleaned their fiddly lids. Here are the ones we recommend.

  19. Infosecurity Magazine

    Critical Flaw in Multiple Atlassian Products Exploited in the Wild

    A critical vulnerability affecting eight Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence, is being exploited in the wild, said VulnCheck

  20. CIO

    Your employees are building AI agents. Do you know what they’re doing?

    Eager to incorporate agentic AI into their work, employees are taking matters into their own hands, creating their own AI agents, regardless of organizational approval, and a not insignificant number of those creations could have devastating consequences if IT leaders don’t get ahead of the trend...