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Troy Hunt on Agentic AI: Rickety but Revolutionary Potential
Troy Hunt draws a Wright Brothers analogy for OpenClaw, an agentic AI tool he's been experimenting with. He acknowledges the technology is rough around the edge
Yellowstone may be powered by a vanished tectonic plate, not a mantle plume
A new paper proposes that the Yellowstone hotspot - famous for its supervolcanic eruptions - may not be driven by a deep mantle plume after all. Instead, the re
Anthropic's AI Exploit Tool Sparks Security Debate
Anthropic's new AI system, designed to identify software vulnerabilities by writing exploits, has raised concerns about misuse despite the company's safety meas
Artemis II Crew Faces Critical 14-Minute Reentry Through Earth's Atmosphere
NASA's Artemis II mission is set to conclude with splashdown off the Southern California coast at 8:07 PM ET Friday. The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacec
asgi-gzip fix stops SSE streams from being incorrectly compressed
A production Datasette deployment broke when Server-Sent Events responses were being gzip-compressed by the asgi-gzip middleware, which had been extracted from
Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Plugin Update Pushed via Compromised Nextend Servers
Attackers compromised the update infrastructure of Nextend, the company behind the popular WordPress plugin Smart Slider 3 Pro, to distribute a backdoored versi
BlueHammer Zero-Day Exposes Flaws in Microsoft's Disclosure
The discovery of the BlueHammer exploit, a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows systems, has highlighted longstanding concerns about Microsoft's bug disclos
Browser Extensions Become Stealth AI Pipeline, Bypassing Enterprise Controls
Browser extensions have quietly become one of the largest unmanaged channels through which employees feed corporate data into AI systems. While security teams h
Ceasefires Have Little Effect on Slowing Nation-State Cyber Operations
Historical patterns show that diplomatic ceasefires and peace agreements between nations do not meaningfully reduce cyber operations. State-sponsored hacking ca
Chrome 146 Introduces Device-Bound Session Credentials to Combat Cookie Theft
Google is shipping Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) in Chrome 146 for Windows, a feature designed to neutralize session hijacking attacks that rely on st
Chrome 146 ships hardware-bound session cookies to neuter infostealer theft
Chrome 146 on Windows now enforces Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), tying authenticated browser sessions to a private key that lives inside the device's
CPUID supply chain breach pushed trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor for six hours
Attackers compromised a secondary API at CPUID between April 9 and 10, swapping download links on the official site to point at Cloudflare R2-hosted trojanized