Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
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Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
"City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals
An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals. [...]
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards
A new Android NFC relay malware called WindRelay is being used alongside the SpyNote remote administration tool (RAT) to steal live card data and send it to attackers in real time.…
'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
Long-running Data Theft Campaign Targeting Salesforce, ServiceNow
The "City-Forum" campaign has been active since at least March 2025 and has targeted organizations across multiple sectors with custom tooling.
Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts
Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe's Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack cust…
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy
More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a …
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Exploit Wednesday's back, baby
Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor
The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a neve…
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
Walmart Takes a 'Trusted Agent' Approach to Purple Teaming
Walmart colocates red and blue teams to build trust and improve security through collaborative purple teaming exercises
North American data center vacancy holds at just 1%
Despite significant public pushback, North America’s data center industry is engaging in unprecedented expansion, with more than 66 gigawatts (GW) of capacity under construction as…
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
Plug and Pwn attack uses fake USB devices for Windows SYSTEM access
Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor softwar…
Lazarus hackers exploited Windows zero-day to target defense firms
North Korean hackers have been exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-68820) to target defense-sector companies as part of the Operation Dream Job campaign. [...]
D2DO310: Developing Efficient AI Workflows
Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsid…
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act
Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA
SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti
SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Shortly After PoC Release
The vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in July and CISA warned that it could end up being exploited in the wild. The post SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Shortly After PoC R…
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
FBI: Hackers target online accounts to steal nude photos
The FBI warns that cybercriminals are targeting adults' and children's social media and other online accounts to steal sexually explicit images or videos. [...]
737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One
A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traff…
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
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