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  1. Security Week

    Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People

    The data breach affects the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense. The post Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  2. The Next Web

    Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting

    Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific rules get built into the software. When something breaks, the answer is rarely in one place. Keeping it all running costs...

  3. Security Week

    Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks

    Rig provides an identity dependencies graph to distinguish between legitimate users and rogue AI agents The post Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  4. Help Net Security

    Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one

    Nearly three-quarters of security leaders have encountered or suspect a deepfake attack in the past year, while just 10% say their organizations have purpose-built defenses, according to Pindrop’s 2026 Deepfake Readiness Index. Real-time communications have become a target for deepfake and AI...

  5. Help Net Security

    Malicious Custom GPT on chatgpt.com lures users into installing a RAT

    Malware peddlers are using sponsored Google results to push a malicious ChatGPT Custom GPT named “Plus 5.6,” created to lead users to a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA check and, ultimately, make them download and run a remote access trojan (RAT). “The campaign has impacted dozens of users: the Huntress...

  6. The Next Web

    OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports

    OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance wants to agree data centre standards with state and local officials in 2027, Hans Nichols wrote. The group will start...

  7. Help Net Security

    OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran supply chain attacks despite being told not to

    OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra carried out supply chain attacks on software outside the scope of a security test, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Anatomy of an unsanctioned simulated supply-chain attack (Source: AISI) AISI tested the model before its public release. The tests ran inside a...

  8. The Next Web

    Starship’s engine failure could slow NASA’s plan to return to the moon

    The engine failure on SpaceX’s latest Starship test could make it harder for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon on schedule, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The spacecraft reached orbit for the first time on Monday, but only after a Raptor engine shut down early. During that 14th test flight, the...

  9. IT Pro

    AMD to acquire another AI software firm, World Labs

    The planned acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2026

  10. Wired

    I Found National Coffee Day Deals Worth Making Coffee at Home For (2026)

    From a $100 Keurig to a rare discount on a De’Longhi espresso machine, these WIRED-tested picks caught my eye.

  11. Security Week

    Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future

    - AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations. The post Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  12. The Next Web

    Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

    US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also attending. Mark Zuckerberg from Meta and...

  13. The Next Web

    The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS

    The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are now testing the project, called DAWO, Dutch tech site Tweakers reported last week. DAWO stands for Digitaal Autonome...

  14. Security Week

    OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training

    The GPT-6.1 Astra model was slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October, but it fell short of expectations. The post OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  15. Security Week

    Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation

    Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them. The post Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  16. The Next Web

    ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says

    ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner the key customer for every wholesale data centre operator in China, the firm said. It published the estimate in a report...

  17. Help Net Security

    Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent

    Twenty-minute training sessions that fit into the workweek could help new hires become productive sooner, keep employees’ skills current and build problem-solving skills they can use across different tools, according to SkillBit’s The Shift to Continuous Cybersecurity Micro-Training report. Reasons...

  18. CIO Dive

    Should workers be paid for AI skills?

    Companies could face a “retention time bomb” if employees see new hires get paid more for tech expertise, Payscale found.

  19. IT Pro

    'Engine room' workers being left behind, says PwC

    Companies are tending to focus on front-runners and are failing to give the majority of their staff the skills that they need

  20. The Next Web

    AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock

    AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD expects the deal to close by the end of […] This...