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  1. IT Pro Security

    Vulnerability disclosures are rocketing, but AI is changing the types of flaw being discovered

    The number of exploitations has also grown by almost 100%, according to Google

  2. Help Net Security

    Armadin raises $255.5 million to expand AI offensive security platform

    Armadin has raised $255.5 million in Series B funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel that brings the company’s valuation to over $2.5 billion. The round includes participation from new investors Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and Redpoint. Existing investors 8VC, Ballistic Ventures...

  3. The Next Web

    Zuckerberg drafted Trump’s AI accord, but Microsoft and Amazon didn’t sign

    Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunch where the CEOs agreed it. Ashley Gold...

  4. Wired

    Tractive Cat 6 Mini Review: A Fitbit for Your Cat

    Cats are finally getting the dog treatment. This smart cat collar features GPS location, activity, and sleep tracking, plus all-new heart and respiratory rate monitoring.

  5. NY Times

    What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

    The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.

  6. Wired

    Exclusive: Neurable’s First Brain-Scanning Headphones Want to Fine-Tune Your Focus

    The company claims that its new device, the Neurable One, can keep you in the zone, calculate the best time to take a break, and tell you when your “brain battery” needs a recharge.

  7. CIO

    Modernization without disruption: Rethinking the rip-and-replace mindset

    I’ve seen organizations reach a point in a modernization program where the technology itself is no longer the biggest risk. A decision was made for a full rip-and-replace. The new environment is ready. The migration plan has been tested. The business case has been approved. But the team responsible...

  8. CIO Dive

    Are forward deployed engineers flirting with failure?

    Vendor-led FDE initiatives face cost and efficacy issues that will lead most companies to abandon the model by 2028, according to Gartner.

  9. Security Week

    Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network

    The US government continues its crackdown on Tren de Aragua over its ATM jackpotting scheme. The post Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  10. Security Week

    Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack

    The flaws were chained to hijack sessions, achieve remote code execution, and elevate privileges to root. The post Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  11. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

    OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to...

  12. The Hackers News

    OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

    OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to...

  13. The Hacker News

    CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504...

  14. The Hackers News

    CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504...

  15. Wired

    Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race

    James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.

  16. The Next Web

    Monk hosts Net 30, an applied AI summit on the future of finance

    On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a...

  17. The Next Web

    Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says

    A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday. Proofpoint has identified the...

  18. Help Net Security

    New Cisco SD-WAN zero-day exploited in-the-wild (CVE-2026-76504)

    For the fifth time this year, Cisco revealed attackers have exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-76504) in its SD-WAN solution in zero-day attacks. The vendor’s incident responders became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability in September 2026, after getting pinged and resolving a Cisco...

  19. IT Pro

    UK schools are getting better at dealing with cyber attacks

    Most now say they can recover immediately, and that they're taking proactive measures to protect themselves

  20. IT Pro Security

    UK schools are getting better at dealing with cyber attacks

    Most now say they can recover immediately, and that they're taking proactive measures to protect themselves