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  1. Wired

    Instagram Is a Streaming Service Now (opens Wired in a new tab)

    Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

  2. Infosecurity Magazine

    First ISC2 AI Security Certification Expected for Early 2027 (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)

    ISC2 is seeking 3000 volunteers to enrol to a pilot exam phase for its upcoming AI security certification

  3. Wired

    Massive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the Polls (opens Wired in a new tab)

    From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

  4. IT Pro

    Microsoft’s ‘voluntary exit’ offer explained (opens IT Pro in a new tab)

    The tech giant expects fewer than 30% to take up the offer, but the move shows changes are afoot at Microsoft

  5. Security Week

    This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal (opens Security Week in a new tab)

    Keep your patch management pipelines primed in case another round of Citrix NetScaler patches get released soon. The post This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  6. CIO

    ‘Citizen AI’ can help IT leaders spark business solutions — if done right (opens CIO in a new tab)

    AI fluency has long mattered to Sambit Dutta. When he joined global chemical manufacturer Hexion this year as SVP of AI transformation, his strategy included bringing “AI to the masses, where the people can not only just consume AI, but also become what we call builders.” Dutta has made citizen AI...

  7. Wired

    How to Hide Your Baby From the Government (opens Wired in a new tab)

    “Sovereign citizens” think they can live beyond the reach of the state. Now the movement has influencers—and they’re selling all sorts of anarchist courses to expectant families.

  8. Security Week

    Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover (opens Security Week in a new tab)

    Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges. The post Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  9. Infosecurity Magazine

    Watchdog Urges Police and Fire Service to Improve Cybersecurity (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)

    UK police forces and fire and rescue services have been urged to strengthen cybersecurity as rising cyber threats outpace current defenses

  10. Wired

    Is an Under-Sink Reverse Osmosis System Worth It? Benefits, Costs, and Drawbacks (opens Wired in a new tab)

    The Waterdrop X12 improved the taste of my tap water, but reverse osmosis comes with costs beyond the purchase price.

  11. The Hacker News

    Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those...

  12. Wired

    I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One (opens Wired in a new tab)

    I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

  13. CIO

    The AI notetaker risk is now an everywhere problem (opens CIO in a new tab)

    The businesspeople adopting AI notetakers are not being reckless. They are responding to a real business need. Our teams are in meetings all day with companies we support, and the idea that we could read a clean summary of every one of them at the end of the day makes us better partners to our...

  14. NY Times

    In the A.I. ‘Robogym,’ Machines Train to Be More Like Humans (opens NY Times in a new tab)

    Germany’s Neura is one of the companies at the forefront of efforts to use artificial intelligence in robotics, and crucial to whether Europe can close the gap with China.

  15. CIO

    Black October: This week’s cybersecurity crises mean infrastructure inventory just became a board-level priority (opens CIO in a new tab)

    “Are we exposed?” CIOs and CTOs heard that question all last week. On Tuesday, PHP shipped emergency fixes for two pre-authentication remote code execution flaws that date back to 2004. By Wednesday, Palo Alto Networks said every supported version of PAN-OS and Panorama was vulnerable and no fix...

  16. CSO Online

    The days of assuming another company’s breach is someone else’s problem are over (opens CSO Online in a new tab)

    The median blast radius of data breaches has increased year-on-year at the same time cybercriminals have begun using AI to mine stolen datasets for damaging information that enables follow-on fraud and cyberattacks. In 2026, the median breach exposed 542 organizations beyond the initially breached...

  17. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Compaction Flaw Let Researchers Bypass Hidden Reasoning Protections (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the...

  18. CIO

    SAP wants Joule to run business workflows, not just answer questions (opens CIO in a new tab)

    SAP says it is ushering in a new era of agentic AI, one where agents don’t just learn a business, but help run it. This week at its TechEd conference, the company is announcing new tools in its SAP Business AI Platform that will extend AI agents’ capabilities, give them richer, more...

  19. CIO

    SAP wants Joule to run business workflows, not just answer questions (opens CIO in a new tab)

    SAP says it is ushering in a new era of agentic AI, one where agents don’t just learn a business, but help run it. This week at its TechEd conference, the company is announcing new tools in its SAP Business AI Platform that will extend AI agents’ capabilities, give them richer, more...

  20. IT Pro Security

    Japan has declared a national cyber emergency – what could this mean for enterprise security leaders? (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)

    Could authorities elsewhere take similar steps, and does it change how we respond to cyber incidents?