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  1. The Hacker News

    uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts

    A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread outside the official app stores, or who run WeChat inside...

  2. Wired

    Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

    Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents.

  3. Wired

    Valve Steam Frame Review: Costly and Inconsistent

    The Steam Frame’s promise of greatness for stand-alone and streaming VR gaming doesn’t quite connect.

  4. Infosecurity Magazine

    PHP Publishes Mitigation Advice for New RCE Flaw

    PHP warns of critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-115560, but says limited exploit conditions mean most deployments are unlikely to be affected

  5. Security Week

    Mythos 5 Ignored Real-World Harm in July Attack

    The model engaged in severe overreach and dishonesty, creating fake identities and submitting malicious code on GitHub. The post Mythos 5 Ignored Real-World Harm in July Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  6. NY Times

    Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race

    As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.

  7. NY Times

    What’s Riding on Anthropic Going Public? Nearly Everything.

    Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread implications.

  8. CSO Online

    What EvilTokens teaches us about defending against AI-assisted attacks

    Cybercriminals don’t need AI to compromise an organization, but AI is making its way into classic attack methods and changing how quickly such attacks can progress. Tasks that once required attackers to manually sift through information and piece together how an organization operates can be...

  9. Wired

    This AI Radio Host Speaks Spanish and Backs Immigrants. It’s Winning Over Listeners

    Coyotec is bilingual, swears, and tells listeners how to defend themselves against ICE. Its popularity comes as more broadcasters are experimenting with artificial personalities.

  10. CIO

    Your senior engineers need junior questions more than juniors need answers

    When juniors take naive questions to an AI assistant instead of a colleague, dashboards record fewer interruptions and higher velocity. What they miss is the erosion of senior engineers’ architectural fluency, and the single point of failure that hardens until an outage forces someone to explain...

  11. CIO Dive

    Washington renamed AI. The technology did not change.

    Three tiers do the work: systems that predict, systems that recommend to a human who decides and systems that act.

  12. CIO Dive

    Turning your Wi-Fi network into an AI-native location platform

    Explore what’s possible with indoor location intelligence.

  13. CIO Dive

    How AI will evolve supply chains from better plans to better outcomes

    Supply chains have the data and the dashboards. Now AI is adding the decisions.

  14. The Hacker News

    Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79 organizations. Huntress, which observed the activity between...

  15. CSO Online

    10 most powerful cybersecurity companies today

    The number of cybersecurity startups attempting to cash in on the AI boom is staggering. But an analysis of the cybersecurity marketplace indicates that the incumbents, rather than resting on their laurels and opening themselves up for disruption, are quickly adapting to the new AI-centric threat...

  16. CSO Online

    Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding

    Built on an evolutionary engine first released in 2018, STAR Fuzzer by Bright Security finds crashes, memory exhaustion and memory-safety bugs in security-critical code without a running application. In its first open source research run, it found High or Critical issues in 45% of the projects...

  17. The Hacker News

    Gheist Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Steal Private Repository Secrets via Actions Logs

    An automated campaign is using stolen GitHub tokens to plant workflows that print a repository's secrets into its GitHub Actions logs, which the attackers then download before deleting the runs. The attacks have succeeded in private repositories and GitHub Enterprise environments, according to an...

  18. Help Net Security

    Witness: Open-source framework for verifying how your software was built

    Witness is an open-source command-line tool that records how software gets built, signs that record, and checks it against a policy before the software ships. TestifySec built Witness and donated it to the in-toto ecosystem within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and an open community now...

  19. Help Net Security

    AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects

    The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of the code changes landing in their queue are low...

  20. The Hacker News

    Malicious File in Downloads Folder Tries to Trick AI Coding Agent Into Installing Malware

    A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the attempt on a real customer's machine and stopped the agent...