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Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers
A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Direct…
Energy giant ENGIE discloses data breach affecting customers
French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by bu…
Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta and expand work on Muse agent
Nvidia will put $3bn into Meta and work more closely with it on Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent, the two companies announced today. The money is part of the share sale Meta launche…
OpenAI Compaction Flaw Let Researchers Bypass Hidden Reasoning Protections
OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint h…
CISA confirms PHP2Shell vulnerabilities now exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its catalog of actively exploited security flaws and ordered federal ag…
OpenAI announces new discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics
OpenAI said its models generated proof that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. It also released new results for math and physics problems.
Mozilla Festival returns to Barcelona with a focus on community-led tech
What would technology look like if it were built by communities rather than controlled by a handful of companies? That question sits at the heart of this year’s Mozilla Festival, …
Attackers Hijack Dahua IP Cameras in Ukraine Using P2P Access and Auth Weaknesses
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua. "Cases of …
X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused
Whose hand is behind this travesty?
CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploi…
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage,…
iPhone Lockdown Mode: The pros and cons of enabling Apple's security feature
Lockdown Mode enables extreme protections for those most at risk, but it's overkill for most people.
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major"…
The most popular streaming platforms in the US might not be what you think
You might be surprised at the rankings of some streaming services when it comes to what Americans watch on their TVs.
6+ ways you can use your PlayStation 5's USB ports
You can do more than charge your controllers with the USB ports on your PS5. Here are some of the possibilities.
Halide releases its first batch of updates for the iPhone Duo
Camera app Halide released a new update for the iPhone Duo that adds three different shooting modes based on what position the foldable is in.
Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.
OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Hundreds of computer science papers rest on a conjecture that an internal OpenAI model now claims to have refuted, the company said on Monday. OpenAI announced two more results th…
What are the leading causes of EV battery damage?
Charging behaviors and heat are the things to pay attention to.
University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw
Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression lib…
The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid
An iPhone Duo can become even more expensive if you have to repair it, so it's vital to plan for that ahead of time.
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.