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  1. The Hacker News

    Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

    Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for...

  2. The Hackers News

    Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

    Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for...

  3. Dark Reading

    Kiteworks & Citrix Incidents Show Challenges of Zero-Day Response

    One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.

  4. Wired

    The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

    The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t address toxic masculinity in the sport.

  5. The Next Web

    Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists

    Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work...

  6. Dark Reading

    SWIFT Banking & Government Middleware Enables RCE

    Patch middleware vulnerabilities now to avoid hardware-based MFA exploits in ultra-sensitive environments.

  7. The Next Web

    Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference

    Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship. Volantis...

  8. Dark Reading

    Is Your Organization Ready for 2027's AI Accountability Era?

    Organizations may face an artificial intelligence (AI) reckoning over the next year. Omdia and Gartner weigh in on how to tackle the governance, security, and value challenges ahead.

  9. Wired

    These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

    Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.

  10. Dark Reading

    Is It Fair to Blame 'Rogue' AI for Security Failures?

    "Rogue AI" terminology anthropomorphizes LLMs and shifts risk responsibility from vendors. Defenders should treat agents as untrusted, nondeterministic software systems, not sentient beings with malicious intent.

  11. The Next Web

    Tesla’s deliveries fell 2% and still beat expectations

    Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year on year but well above the 461,000 analysts expected, with American electric sales down 47% in August after the federal credit expired. Its European registrations rose 43.3% between January and August, outpacing the wider...

  12. NY Times

    A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

    “It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”

  13. The Next Web

    Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

    Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held...

  14. Wired

    Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked

    For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump canceled the term.

  15. Security Week

    In Other News: $15K iCloud Spoofing Bugs, AI Policy Experts Phished, Adblocker Spies on AI Chats

    Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Kiteworks patches over 100 vulnerabilities, Microsoft publishes 2026 Digital Defense Report, AI finds 24 Android app flaws. The post In Other News: $15K iCloud Spoofing Bugs, AI Policy Experts Phished, Adblocker Spies on AI Chats appeared...

  16. The Next Web

    Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business

    Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made...

  17. Infosecurity Magazine

    Microsoft: AI Cuts Post-Compromise Attack Time to Minutes

    Microsoft has warned that threat actors have gained the advantage over defenders by using AI to enhance the speed and scale of attacks

  18. Dark Reading

    Vulnerability Backlogs Are an Ownership Problem

    Organizations don't need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets and has the authority and capacity to actually fix them.

  19. Security Week

    macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor

    The dropper “carries a complete universal Mach-O inside itself, roughly 756 KB in the development build, and extracts it at runtime. The post macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  20. Dark Reading

    Malicious Linux Implants Mimic Asian Mail Security Products

    A trio of newly discovered backdoors walk and quack like legitimate edge solutions, so it's hard to tell they're not.