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  1. Help Net Security

    The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents

    In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should run under their own identity, with the person’s identity attached when acting on someone’s behalf. He covers where...

  2. Help Net Security

    Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys

    Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other providers in it, encrypted on their own device. Apps that want those keys ask the wallet for access, and the...

  3. IT Pro

    Replacing workers with AI? You may come to regret it

    New research from Gartner suggests that poor workforce planning means many companies will up rehiring staff

  4. The Hacker News

    New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Rank Victims by Financial Value

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) to rank a victim's stolen data by their monetization value. Like other typical stealer families, VOLTA is equipped to harvest passwords and...

  5. Wired

    The 30 Best Gifts for Star Wars Fans (2026)

    From marble runs to advent calendars, these are the best Star Wars gifts for fans of all ages.

  6. Wired

    The Hollywood Color Nerd Who Shot ‘Knives Out’ Explains His Viral iPhone Camera App

    The Chromagraph Camera app costs $13 dollars and processes iPhone photos with the same color math Rian Johnson’s cinematographer, Steve Yedlin, uses for film.

  7. Wired

    There’s a Free Video Editor Inside Google Drive That Anyone Can Use

    You may not have noticed everything Google’s free software suite offers—especially a web app called Google Vids.

  8. Wired

    8 Best Space Heaters (2026): Tested, Measured, and Mistreated

    These portable heaters will heat a room quickly, quietly, and safely.

  9. Wired

    Lenovo LOQ 15: The Only Gaming Laptop Worth Buying Below $1,500

    As prices escalate on gaming laptops, there’s really only one affordable option still around: the Lenovo LOQ 15, which offers a better performance and display than its competitors.

  10. Security Week

    Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations

    The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues. The post Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  11. Wired

    What Democrats Can Learn From New York’s Data Center Moratorium

    With a number of anti-data-center candidates poised to win on Tuesday, New York provides a glimpse at the tensions around actually having to do something about the digital infrastructure.

  12. Wired

    7 Best Travel Mugs (2026): Insulated, Leakproof, and Self-Heating

    These top picks from brands like Ember, Owala, and Hydro Flask are built to last, keeping your drinks hot and your mornings smooth.

  13. Wired

    Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

    Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.

  14. NY Times

    Cyril Hilsum, Who Helped Invent Flat-Panel Displays in TVs and iPhones, Has Died at 101

    The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.

  15. Wired

    A Newly Discovered Trail of Cosmic Debris Illustrates How the End of the Solar System Could Look

    A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted.

  16. Wired

    Best Chromebooks and Googlebooks (2026): Laptops With a Google Touch

    While Google is heralding a new series of laptops called Googlebooks, Chromebooks are sticking around—for now. These are the ones to consider.

  17. Help Net Security

    Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability

    Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is...

  18. The Hacker News

    CVSS 10.0 LXD, MicroCloud Flaw Lets Attackers Impersonate Trusted Clients Without a Private Key

    A critical flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud let an attacker log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. To do it, the attacker had to reach their HTTPS API over the network and have the trusted client's public certificate. Once in, the attacker would act as that...

  19. The Hacker News

    Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script

    Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside company. Polymarket says it is refunding about $2.7 million to 726...

  20. The Hacker News

    FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist

    The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The FBI, along with the U.S...