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  1. NY Times

    Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to $16.8 Billion in Third Quarter (opens NY Times in a new tab)

    The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.

  2. Dark Reading

    Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)

    CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

  3. Wired

    Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause (opens Wired in a new tab)

    With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.

  4. Dark Reading

    Yam Store: The Phishing Network Behind a Billion Messages (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)

    A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.

  5. Dark Reading

    Anthropic 'SneakPeek' Flaw Is a Silent Zero-Click Threat (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)

    A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

  6. CIO Dive

    Dedicated AI officers, platforms lead businesses to ROI (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)

    Despite a link between the executive role and better returns, clear ownership over AI matters more than titles, a Wharton study found.

  7. NY Times

    Senators Question Meta’s Data Center Tax Strategy (opens NY Times in a new tab)

    Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.

  8. CIO Dive

    Businesses need better risk management to fend off cyberattacks (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)

    Risks are growing at a time when companies rely more than ever on vendors for cybersecurity, according to a Grant Thornton report.

  9. The Hacker News

    Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting New Critical Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then...

  10. Wired

    AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science (opens Wired in a new tab)

    AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.

  11. The Hacker News

    Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any command an...

  12. NY Times

    Netflix, Facing Slowing Growth, Cuts 6% of Its Work Force (opens NY Times in a new tab)

    The streamer’s share price is down more than 40 percent over the last year as the company has struggled with stalling engagement.

  13. The Hacker News

    Microsoft Disrupts 3 Phishing Kits Linked to Over 1 Billion Scam Messages (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man...

  14. The Hacker News

    U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in...

  15. IT Pro

    Workday CEO: "We've transformed the organization to be ready for AI and to deliver products" (opens IT Pro in a new tab)

    The pace of innovation has accelerated, with 17 agents already live...

  16. Security Week

    AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems and Move Equipment in Minutes, Booz Allen Finds (opens Security Week in a new tab)

    In Booz Allen’s isolated OT lab, AI models met every objective across eight scenarios and reached an industrial control network from a perimeter compromise in just over 16 minutes. The post AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems and Move Equipment in Minutes, Booz Allen Finds appeared first on...

  17. Security Week

    ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw (opens Security Week in a new tab)

    ABB previously published an advisory warning about possible probing of a dynovaPRO vulnerability. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  18. CIO

    Beyond the perimeter: The network as the security fabric for the AI era (opens CIO in a new tab)

    Enterprises have historically built separate network and security architectures, but this separation is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain as frontier AI models mature and security architectures shift from perimeter-based defenses to identity- and context-aware enforcement. Frontier AI...

  19. Security Week

    Harmonic Security Raises $50 Million for Workforce AI Protection (opens Security Week in a new tab)

    The cybersecurity startup plans to expand engineering and go-to-market teams in the US and UK. The post Harmonic Security Raises $50 Million for Workforce AI Protection appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  20. Wired

    Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies (opens Wired in a new tab)

    Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.