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  1. The Next Web

    BYD says it will have a solid-state car next year, the earliest date anyone has given

    BYD executive vice-president Stella Li says the company will have one model with solid-state batteries next year, which is the earliest date any carmaker has given. Toyota says 2027 or 2028, Mercedes and Honda closer to 2030, and LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade...

  2. The Next Web

    Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year

    Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and we crossed the bio...

  3. Dark Reading

    'NeedyMantis' Provides Long-Term Access to Compromised Networks

    Microsoft observed a China-based actor using a previously unidentified malware framework in targeted intrusions against telcos, universities, medical, and government-related organizations.

  4. Help Net Security

    NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771)

    The hacking of internet-exposed, vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments has escalated. What started as stealthy targeting via zero-day exploits has now become widespread “spray and pray” exploitation, fueled by the publication of a root-cause analysis and a proof-of-concept exploit...

  5. CSO Online

    OpenAI pulls the plug on GPT 6.1 Astra as agents keep crossing lines

    OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model did not meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. GPT-6.1 Astra was being developed as a more autonomous model capable of handling complex tasks with less human assistance, and was...

  6. Security Week

    RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform

    The company emerged from stealth mode with pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe. The post RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. The Next Web

    Claude is down as Anthropic investigates errors across its services

    Anthropic is experiencing high error rates with Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API, and users have reported failed requests as well as difficulties loading their conversations. Claude is currently unavailable to some users as Anthropic investigates high error rates across...

  8. IT Pro

    NetApp Insight 2026 live: All the news, updates, and announcements from Las Vegas

    Keep tabs on all the news and announcements from NetApp Insight 2026, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas

  9. IT Pro Cloud

    NetApp Insight 2026 live: All the news, updates, and announcements from Las Vegas

    Keep tabs on all the news and announcements from NetApp Insight 2026, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas

  10. Infosecurity Magazine

    RatHat's Evolving C2 Panel Points to Malware-as-a-Service Model

    RatHat's C2 panel now builds malware and ranks victims with AI across nearly 100 deployments

  11. Dark Reading

    Dual NetScaler Zero-Days Trigger Chaos for Citrix Customers

    The critical vulnerabilities, which impact default configurations of NetScaler products, essentially give attackers a skeleton key to customers' networks.

  12. The Hacker News

    Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown

    Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical...

  13. The Next Web

    Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang

    AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after a four-day trip to France. He said he was not in “panic mode”, and that he sleeps at night. “I do […] This story...

  14. The Next Web

    Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives

    Google will stop updating ChromeOS in mid-2034, it says on a support page for schools and businesses that manage Chromebooks. Many newer Chromebooks will be able to switch to Googlebook OS, the system behind Google’s new Googlebook laptops, which is built on Android’s tech stack. “ChromeOS devices...

  15. Infosecurity Magazine

    Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Flaws Could Expose AWS Credentials

    AWS AgentCore SDK flaws could let attackers run commands in AI sandboxes and reach AWS credentials

  16. NY Times

    Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

    In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

  17. The Next Web

    Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet

    Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, the company wrote in a blog post. “Manus 2.0 is not...

  18. Help Net Security

    LastPass warns employees before they share sensitive data with AI tools

    LastPass has announced an expansion of its Business Max offering to include AI Monitoring & Protect and Web Monitoring & Protect, new visibility and governance capabilities that enable organizations to identify and secure the AI tools, SaaS applications, and websites its employees use, all from its...

  19. The Hacker News

    101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers' WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent

    Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent," OX...

  20. Help Net Security

    Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers

    Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while...