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  1. The Next Web

    San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports

    San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior...

  2. The Next Web

    Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed

    Nokia’s chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy supply allowed, and that demand would hold even without a new frontier model for three years. Bain and a paper presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity both question...

  3. Dark Reading

    ClingSTUN Turns Vulnerable IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes

    The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.

  4. CIO Dive

    How Schneider Electric is bridging the AI literacy gap

    The company developed a program designed for four types of employees, built to connect to the work they’re doing.

  5. CTO Magazine

    How Joe Fabiano Approaches Technology Leadership

    CTO OF THE QUARTER CTO Magazine’s quarterly spotlight celebrating technology leaders who turn ideas into real-world impact through innovation, clear thinking, and long-term vision. Big technology ideas are exciting. Making them work, scale, and create lasting value is where the real challenge...

  6. CIO Dive

    White House AI task force faces expertise, partnership challenges

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is nowhere to be seen in the government’s latest AI security project.

  7. CIO

    AWS seeks to automate cloud optimization with new AI agent

    AWS is applying AI to the challenge of evaluating and improving cloud environments with a public preview of a new agentic service aimed at automating the discovery and optimization of architectural issues. Despite its name, AWS makes no claims for the architectural qualities of its Well-Architected...

  8. The Hacker News

    Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes

    Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. "Weak authorization...

  9. The Hackers News

    Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes

    Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. "Weak authorization...

  10. Dark Reading

    Chinese Hackers Impersonate US Officials for AI Cyber Espionage

    An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.

  11. CTO Magazine

    AI Governance Needs a Kitemark to Close the Public Trust Gap, Says Ray Eitel-Porter

    Technology, Work, and Organizational Change: Technology adoption continues to reshape how work is organized, performed, and managed across enterprises. This series examines the impact of automation, digital platforms, and intelligent systems on workforce structures, skills, and collaboration. It...

  12. Infosecurity Magazine

    ClingSTUN Malware Turns Unpatched IoT Devices Into Proxy Nodes

    ClingSTUN exploits known IoT flaws and abuses public STUN servers to keep proxy access to devices

  13. Security Week

    Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports

    Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP). The post Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  14. The Hacker News

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: NetScaler and FortiMail 0-Days, AI Coding Leaks, Spectre v2 and Ransomware Arrests

    A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep finding leverage in small things that were easy to overlook. There are actively exploited bugs in the mix, cleaner intrusion paths, smarter...

  15. The Hackers News

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: NetScaler and FortiMail 0-Days, AI Coding Leaks, Spectre v2 and Ransomware Arrests

    A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep finding leverage in small things that were easy to overlook. There are actively exploited bugs in the mix, cleaner intrusion paths, smarter...

  16. Infosecurity Magazine

    New Stealthy Linux Backdoors Target Telecoms, Masquerade as Email Traffic

    Rapid7 has uncovered new BPFDoor, BPF Rekoobe and AVERAT malware variants targeting telecom and network-edge appliances in South Korea and Taiwan

  17. Infosecurity Magazine

    Citrix NetScaler Targeted Via New Zero Day

    The memory buffer vulnerability can result in denial of service to customers, with CISA warning it poses “significant risks” to the federal government

  18. Dark Reading

    Need for Speed: AI-Driven Attacks Are Changing Security Strategies

    AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.

  19. Security Week

    Linux Backdoor Abuses STUN Protocol, Exploits Dozens of Flaws

    ClingSTUN operates as a back-connect proxy backdoor, sets up persistence, and contains exploits for self-propagation. The post Linux Backdoor Abuses STUN Protocol, Exploits Dozens of Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  20. Security Week

    250,000 Impacted by Data Breaches at New Jersey, Texas Healthcare Firms

    Hackers stole patient information from Clover Health Investments and AngMar Management Services in July. The post 250,000 Impacted by Data Breaches at New Jersey, Texas Healthcare Firms appeared first on SecurityWeek.