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  1. Infosecurity Magazine

    CloudSyncD MacOS Backdoor Hides Behind Fake Zoom Installer

    CloudSyncD uses a fake Zoom installer to phish Mac passwords and launch a two-stage backdoor

  2. The Next Web

    McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports

    McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers the US and some markets abroad. One factor the engine weighs is an estimate of how much each store’s customers are...

  3. Help Net Security

    Sophos uses agentic AI to show businesses which security fixes deserve funding

    Sophos has launched Sophos CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled solution that connects security operations to security strategy. The solution gives organizations a picture of their cyber risk, a prioritized plan to reduce it, and measurable proof of progress, in plain language that business...

  4. IT Pro

    Here's how AI could pay for itself

    Bain lays out the challenge of paying for the high costs of AI infrastructure

  5. Security Week

    AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals

    As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals. The post AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  6. CIO

    ServiceNow launches standalone AI service desk to provide support in Teams, Slack, and email

    ServiceNow has a new take on the service desk: Flow by ServiceNow, a standalone AI product that allows users to get help via chats in Microsoft Teams, Slack, or a Flow web app, or by email, rather than having to leave what they’re doing to open a helpdesk ticket. Flow can be up and running within a...

  7. Help Net Security

    AI agent used Zammad zero-days to breach Dutch vulnerability disclosure non-profit

    An agentic AI-powered attack that hit the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) on September 21 exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in Zammad, an open-source helpdesk and customer support ticketing system. “Used together, [the two flaws] allowed the attackers to hijack sessions...

  8. Help Net Security

    Legit Security extends automated fixes to vulnerable open-source dependencies

    Legit Security has announced an expansion of its Agentic Remediation capability to cover vulnerabilities found in open-source dependencies, not just first-party code, enabling development teams to move from vulnerability detection to a verified fix without manual triage. The expansion addresses a...

  9. Dark Reading

    Warlock Ransomware Hits Large Spanish, Portuguese Orgs

    A year-old Chinese threat actor looks like a cybercrime gang, acts like a state-associated APT, and attacks organizations in unexpected places.

  10. Wired

    The Best Early Amazon Echo Deals (and the Worst) Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days

    Amazon raised prices across its devices in August. Here are the early device deals ahead of Prime Day that are still worth it—and which aren’t.

  11. Wired

    Amazon Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft 2026: Specs, Price, Release Date

    Ahead of the Kindle’s 20th anniversary next year, Amazon is refreshing its entire range of e-readers with fresh colors, an aluminum build, and a new frame design that’s both thinner and lighter.

  12. Wired

    What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?

    I’ve tested every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.

  13. The Next Web

    Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks

    AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI “very carefully”. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Islam of the BBC asked him whether an AI bubble […]...

  14. Security Week

    Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure

    Under certain conditions, CVE-2026-73570 can be exploited via specially crafted emails without user interaction. The post Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  15. The Next Web

    OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC

    OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wednesday. Leading the Future had said the couple...

  16. The Next Web

    Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports

    A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell reported the news for Semafor on Thursday. The project, near Pecos in the Permian Basin, will use about 2.67GW of on-site...

  17. The Next Web

    Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports

    Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir Hill, Jesse Drucker, Eli Tan and Mike […] This...

  18. The Next Web

    DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA

    DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The release...

  19. The Next Web

    AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority

    Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to production code, the consequences of an error...

  20. Help Net Security

    Pentagon breach exposes personal data of more than 3 million people

    The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of people that hackers gained access to their personal data. The breach affects 2.76 million living individuals, a group that can include current and former defense personnel and their dependents, along with 294,000 deceased...