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‘The Sixty-Year Mission’ Brings the Legacy of ‘Star Trek’ to a New Generation (opens Wired in a new tab)
The documentary chronicles how Star Trek’s positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time.
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Bricksforge WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild (opens Security Week in a new tab)
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85097 can allow threat actors to take control of the targeted WordPress websites. The post Bricksforge WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Google Fitbit Edge: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date (opens Wired in a new tab)
The new $179 tracker features Pixel Watch smarts, week-long battery life, and an OLED screen.
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Passing the Baton: Dark Reading Names New Editor-in-Chief (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
Fahmida Y Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading.
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These ARE the droids you’re looking for (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
There’s an old leadership fantasy that goes something like this: The CISO surveys a sprawling technology estate, discovers 11 tools doing the work of four, calculates the licensing savings, selects a shiny new strategic platform and declares that consolidation has begun. Six months later, all 11...
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Researchers bypass 6 AI agent frameworks with a simple ‘Repeat-After-Me’ prompt (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Researchers have tricked six widely used AI agent frameworks into running tool calls written by an attacker, simply by asking the underlying model to repeat the call back. The technique, which the researchers call “Repeat-After-Me,” worked on LangChain’s LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework...
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Loops raises $3.5M to build the AI operating system for commerce (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Online shopping has become very good at showing people thousands of products and surprisingly bad at helping them choose one. Loops was built around the idea that AI can collapse those experiences into one continuous journey. The company announced a $3.5 million seed round from a16z speedrun, NTT...
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Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year (opens Security Week in a new tab)
The outage hit the main Ubuntu and Canonical websites, including the Ubuntu blog and developer portal. The post Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Major French Supermarket Chains Hit by Cyber-Attack, Food Stock Impacted (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)
The CEO of Cooperative U confirmed a cyber-attack affected the food stock in several stores from October 11
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Bring Your Own Agent: Your Employees' Assistants Are Already Logged In (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the...
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Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US (opens Security Week in a new tab)
Oleg Korniev was a leader of YMCO, a sophisticated network of money mules that helped hackers move funds outside the US. The post Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Ledger Finds Unauthorized Hardware Implant in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallet Amid Fund Theft Reports (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds from users in Southeast Asia who had purchased...
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How Apple Puts Indigenous Languages on the iPhone Keyboard (opens Wired in a new tab)
To save endangered languages, tech companies like Apple are working with Indigenous communities to meet the next generation where they type.
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iRhythm Data Breach Impacts at Least 360,000 People (opens Security Week in a new tab)
Hackers stole patients’ personal information, including names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers. The post iRhythm Data Breach Impacts at Least 360,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Microsoft’s new model helps AI agents judge their next move (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. “This model is designed for routing, classification, prioritization, verification, and workflow control, making it easier to...
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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer (opens Wired in a new tab)
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
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What the C-suite needs to know about AI governance (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
Executives are learning tough lessons about security, oversight and accountability as AI adoption surges.
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Low-cost Android phones are arriving with malware that owners can’t uninstall (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
People who buy low-cost Android phones from online marketplaces may be carrying malware that was placed on the device before it reached them, Bitdefender has found. The campaign, dubbed Midnight Mimosa, runs on budget Android devices from different brands built on MediaTek platforms. The malware...
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Your company has a strategy, and your team has no idea what it is (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Somewhere in your organisation, right now, a team is making a decision. A product prioritisation call, a budget reallocation, a hiring choice, a client proposal. The people making it are smart, experienced, and acting in good faith. There is a fair chance they are making it with no idea what the...
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Critical SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaw Targeted in 135 Exploitation Attempts After Patch (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of pre-authenticated server-side request...
