America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
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I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I’ve bee…
Russian APT Star Blizzard Uses ‘RedFlick’ Infection Chain in Recent Attacks
The state-sponsored group has launched larger-scale phishing campaigns to deploy the CosmicPulse backdoor. The post Russian APT Star Blizzard Uses ‘RedFlick’ Infection Chain in Rec…
US-Focused CSuite Phishing Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions and Deploys RMM Tools for Remote Access
ANY.RUN researchers traced a US-focused CSuite phishing campaign across 351 sandbox analyses, with 51% of submissions coming from the United States. Technology, manufacturing, gove…
ShinyHunters Defiant After FBI Calls on Members to Come Forward
In the wake of a suspected leader’s arrest, ShinyHunters says it never intended to publish data stolen from the FBI. The post ShinyHunters Defiant After FBI Calls on Members to Com…
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
Article URL: https://github.com/maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906100 Points: 279 # Comments: 126
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Attackers Exploit NetScaler Flaw for Root Access, Deploy WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT
Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a newly patched security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to target organizations in North America …
OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted
A High-severity OpenSSL flaw can leak heap memory to the other side of a DTLS connection or crash the program, OpenSSL said on September 29 as it released fixes. DTLS, the TLS var…
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
South Africa Seeks Help After Cyberattack Targets Air Traffic Control
As aviation infrastructure suffers more cyberattacks, air traffic systems are the latest target, with a ransomware toolkit installed on at least one operational network.
High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL
Roughly a dozen vulnerabilities have been patched in each of the open source cryptographic libraries. The post High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL appeared f…
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 Exploit Details Show Pre-Auth Path to Shellcode Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation …
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’
Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
Trump Says Top Tech Firms Have Signed Accord to ‘Self-Police’ AI Development
The accord opened the door to future regulation but focused on four voluntary steps for the companies to take. The post Trump Says Top Tech Firms Have Signed Accord to ‘Self-Police…
Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL
Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. [...]
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
Apple Zero-Day Vulnerability Weaponized in Targeted Attacks
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write flaw, in an extremely sophisticated fashion, according to Apple.
Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps
Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, an…
OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents
It's not OpenClaw. It's dots
Unsloth Studio Flaw Turns Routine Model Inspection Into Code Execution
A patched Unsloth Studio vulnerability allows malicious AI models to execute arbitrary Python code during inspection, via the trust_remote_code setting.
Custom ChatGPTs push ClickFix attacks to deploy RAT malware
Custom variants of OpenAI's ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickFix attacks to deliver malware. [...]
OpenAI CEO Announces New AI Agent and Avoids Mention of Security Concerns at Developer Conference
Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including the company’s new agents, called Dots. The post OpenAI CEO Announces New AI Agent and Avoids Mention of Security …
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core
Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website
FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in after recent arrest
The FBI is warning members of the ShinyHunters extortion group to turn themselves in after Dutch police arrested a man the bureau described as one of the group's alleged leaders. […
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'
Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'