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  1. Infosecurity Magazine

    Trump, Six AI Giants Sign 'Super Intelligence' Safety Accord

    Trump and six AI firms sign a voluntary accord on internal controls, audits and board oversight

  2. The Next Web

    Carrier filtering is blocking legitimate SMS. The operators getting through are doing three things differently

    A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three main reasons: spam volume, complaint rates and...

  3. Security Week

    Government, Finance Orgs Targeted in Weeks-Long NetScaler Zero-Day Attacks

    Several security firms have confirmed seeing exploitation of the NetScaler vulnerabilities CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772. The post Government, Finance Orgs Targeted in Weeks-Long NetScaler Zero-Day Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  4. The Next Web

    Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use

    Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access...

  5. Help Net Security

    Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)

    “Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two recently disclosed NetScaler vulnerabilities that have been exploited as zero-days, says Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal. Mandiant and Google...

  6. Security Week

    Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 100 Vulnerabilities

    Some of the flaws could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or escape the browser sandbox. The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 100 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. The Next Web

    Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals

    AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems. Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since...

  8. The Next Web

    Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off

    Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are actually worth scaling. Ascerta was built to...

  9. The Next Web

    Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi

    Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in onchain finance. The rollout begins today and...

  10. Infosecurity Magazine

    AI Boosts SOC Analyst Capacity but Limits Skill Development

    Swimlane finds that AI is reducing repetitive work for SOC teams but some feel their careers may suffer

  11. The Hacker News

    Know Your Enemy: Browser-Based Attack Techniques in 2026

    Given that the browser is where business apps are accessed and used, it makes sense that attacks are happening there too. Most breaches today begin in a browser session. Often, they never leave it, with the entire attack chain from initial access to exfiltration playing out in the browser. Here are...

  12. The Next Web

    Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports

    Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a key product expansion for the company under John Ternus, who became chief executive on 1 September. At the center of the...

  13. Help Net Security

    AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos

    When developers ask AI coding agents to prove that a user interface fix works, some agents have been posting the evidence where anyone can find it, according to Glow Labs. Diagram showing how AI agents leak screenshots to public repos (Source: Glow Labs) The researchers found more than 13,000...

  14. Wired

    The Best Gifts for Book Lovers (2026): E-Readers, Handy Accessories, Book Sets

    Any one of these gift ideas will make your favorite bookworm very happy, from e-readers and accessories to handy reading essentials.

  15. The Hacker News

    AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub

    AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said. Its researchers found more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300 organizations, including customer billing records and...

  16. Infosecurity Magazine

    Attackers Combine ChatGPT Feature Abuse With ClickFix to Deliver Trojan Malware

    Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress identify campaign to deliver potent trojan which targets users searching for ChatGPT via Google

  17. The Next Web

    “AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk

    Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the president’s lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising “the positive benefits of AI, or SI...

  18. Security Week

    Anthropic Flags AI Agent Liability Risks as OpenAI Faces Hacking Lawsuit

    Attacks by autonomous AI agents are moving out of the lab and into the courtroom, raising unsettled questions about who is liable for what agents do. The post Anthropic Flags AI Agent Liability Risks as OpenAI Faces Hacking Lawsuit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  19. Wired

    The Best Gaming Routers (2026): Tested By a Family of Gamers

    Gaming online can seriously strain your internet connection, but the best gaming routers could give you the edge.

  20. CIO Dive

    IBM adds deployment options to agentic platform Bob

    The company rolled out a self-hosted deployment capability for AI software development as vendors move to address governance concerns.