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  1. Wired

    Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds

    The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

  2. CIO Dive

    Agentic AI gap persists between executives, workers

    When it comes to deploying AI agents, leaders find more success than their employees, who face tool overload and trust gaps.

  3. Dark Reading

    Fake Claude, ChatGPT Attacks Surge, Putting Developers at Risk

    Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands are on the rise, and they typically use ClickFix-like tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees.

  4. CIO

    Why technology is no longer IT’s scarcest resource

    For much of the history of enterprise IT, technology itself was a limiting factor. Organizations had to make difficult choices about which systems they could afford and which capabilities were realistic to deploy. Technology leaders built their strategies around those constraints. Today, the...

  5. Dark Reading

    Biomemory Launches DNA Shield, First Commercial Product Built on Its Molecular IT Platform

    The launch follows the acquisition of catalog's assets and the appointment of Laurent Guengant as CEO earlier this year.

  6. Dark Reading

    Enterprise AI Enters Risk Management Phase as Security Concerns Rise

    Companies are increasingly discovering that the challenge with AI is no longer adoption, but execution.

  7. Dark Reading

    AI Takes Control of Robotic Arm in 16 Minutes Flat

    Most OT devices at utilities, factories, and elsewhere have been deployed for a decade or more, but operators need to get agile and deploy new cyber defenses.

  8. Wired

    Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

    Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

  9. The Hacker News

    Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

    A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and...

  10. CSO Online

    Hallucinated domain in official OpenAI skill underscores AI supply chain risks

    Researchers have discovered a first-of-its-kind supply-chain vulnerability in OpenAI’s official skills repository. OpenAI maintains an official GitHub repository of skills that teach AI agents how to work with various platforms and services. As an official skill, these components are often given an...

  11. The Hacker News

    Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor

    Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and...

  12. Wired

    Here’s Exactly How Tesla Made Its New 230-Mph Car ‘Fly’

    It turns out the Roadster 2 both sucks and blows.

  13. Wired

    Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Review: A Gaming Headset for the Office

    The Razer Barracuda V2 Pro headset has a place in the office as well as at your gaming battle station.

  14. Wired

    Thank Gen Z for the ‘Girls’ Revival

    The HBO series served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run. Then Gen Z started watching.

  15. The Hacker News

    UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google...

  16. CIO

    AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030

    Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner. “Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI capital expenditures during this period,” said Gartner Senior Director...

  17. Wired

    Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

    Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

  18. CSO Online

    Xbow spent $40K on AI and cracked Google Chrome wide open

    A chain of vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser could have enabled researchers to take control of one billion Windows machines worldwide — and it cost them just $40,000 in AI compute time to discover it. Researchers at Xbow USA worked for six days on developing the exploit, which earned them...

  19. Wired

    Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’

    MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

  20. Security Week

    In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit

    Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack. The post In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit appeared first on...