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  1. Wired

    Please Let the Internet Die

    Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

  2. CIO

    What happens when vendors take the lead on agentic AI

    There’s no point building your own agentic AI stack for a non-core function when a vendor already has a product ready to go that meets your needs. For non-tech companies in particular, building from scratch can take time, money, and expertise they don’t have. Take for example, Fertitta...

  3. Security Week

    Secrets Management Firm Infisical Valued at $600 Million After $40 Million Raise

    The company will use the Series B funds to expand its platform for securing AI agents’ access to sensitive systems. The post Secrets Management Firm Infisical Valued at $600 Million After $40 Million Raise appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  4. Wired

    The Men Spending $50,000 Just to Reserve a Tesla Roadster

    The base model—without thrusters or the flight system—will likely cost several times that amount to buy. “I’m going to do everything in my power to get the flying one,” says one customer.

  5. Wired

    ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

    ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

  6. Security Week

    Hackers Start Probing Fresh Oracle EBS Vulnerability

    CVE-2026-101767 is an unauthenticated SQL injection that can be exploited for remote code execution. The post Hackers Start Probing Fresh Oracle EBS Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. CIO

    Your AI agents have audit logs. Can you reconstruct their decisions?

    The moment arrives after the damage. An agent has cancelled a supplier contract, approved a refund it should have declined or moved a customer record somewhere it should never have gone. Someone senior asks a simple question. Why did it do that? The engineering team opens the logs. There are...

  8. IT Pro

    'Britain risks becoming a vassal state' without bold AI sovereignty plans

    UKAI said the government's approach to AI sovereignty is too fragmented, and is calling for a unified plan

  9. Security Week

    CISA Warns of Node2Shell Exploitation as Honeypots Log Attack Attempts

    CISA added the Brotli flaw to its KEV catalog, and two honeypot operators logged attempts, including one that used a broken exploit. The post CISA Warns of Node2Shell Exploitation as Honeypots Log Attack Attempts appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  10. IT Pro

    Westcon-Comstor targets EMEA channel growth with Palo Alto Networks initiative

    The Partner Growth Circle provides joint planning and specialist support to help partners grow their Palo Alto Networks business

  11. Wired

    AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Humans Might Not Be Ready

    Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

  12. CSO Online

    10 ways attackers abuse AI services to hack your business

    Attackers are starting to exploit AI systems to mount attacks in the same way they once relied on built-in enterprise tools such as PowerShell. Instead of relying on malware, cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI tools enterprises depend on — a trend some experts describe as “living off the AI...

  13. IT Pro

    89% of enterprises have scaled back AI deployments over token costs

    Volatile token costs across 2026 have caused major headaches for IT leaders

  14. The Hacker News

    Anthropic's Unreleased AI Model Chains Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux Exploits

    An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report. The exploits were built in the lab after the model was prompted, not seen in any real attack, and...

  15. IT Pro Cloud

    What enterprises can learn from Anthropic’s IPO prospectus about vendor dependency

    With the Claude creator set to go public in November, there are lessons to be learned about the risks of single-vendor dependency

  16. The Hacker News

    FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal activity, including "the advertisement of sexually...

  17. The Hacker News

    Japan's GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach

    Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on October 28 and pays only if a tip helps lead to an arrest or an...

  18. The Hacker News

    Tailscale Patches SSH Flaws That Could Let Hacked Devices Gain Root Access on Other Servers

    Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SSH forwards network connections, a job the Tailscale background...

  19. The Hacker News

    ShinyHunters-Exploited Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Turns Out to Be Three Chained Flaws

    The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week. Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its root is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) that...

  20. Dark Reading

    Third Serengeti Sweep Tops 1,400 Arrests as Investigations Mature

    Interpol's annual Operation Serengeti, now on its third iteration, led to 1,462 arrests across 20 African countries and the US, recovering $105 million in stolen funds.