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One Packet Can Crash OT Servers in Industrial Sectors (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
A high-severity zero-day vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments.
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Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic had been wrong. They were wrong because bots...
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Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on...
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Carbonato Botnet Puts an AI Agent on Hacked Docker Hosts (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
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Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Massive Stock Buyback, the Largest Ever (opens NY Times in a new tab)
The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion.
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Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026) (opens Wired in a new tab)
The Boox Picco is a palm-sized e-reader with a 4-inch screen, strong support for different ebook formats, and digital utility tools.
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SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture...
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Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to...
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UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a...
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Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies...
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Is AI killing jobs for college grads? Not yet, new study says. (opens Washington Post in a new tab)
A paper by two UCLA professors comes amid fears that AI will devastate entry-level hiring.
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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers (opens Wired in a new tab)
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.
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A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasn’t. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. “Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price,” Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse...
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AI Agents Are Privileged Users; Who Is Auditing Their Access? (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.
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Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part...
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Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonprofits...
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction...
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IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components that matter, how...
