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Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills
Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
Read on The RegisterThe last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago
So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?
Read on The RegisterMalvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead…
Read on The Hacker NewsHow AI drove Shopify back to clean code
Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback
Read on The RegisterFastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available
Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a…
Read on The Hacker NewsAnti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code
Read on The RegisterResearcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git
Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as…
Read on The Hacker NewsCTM360 Research Reveals How Insurance Phishing Has Evolved Into Real-Time Account Hijacking
For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attackers…
Read on The Hacker NewsCl0p Affiliates Target Internet-Exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM with Unauthenticated RCE
Threat actors linked to the Cl0p (aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest) ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC…
Read on The Hacker NewsDevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts
The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee…
Read on The Hacker NewsBOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
Read on The RegisterAnthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention
Read on The RegisterCISOs vs. Boards: Myth or Misunderstanding?
Escalating threats are forcing boards to prioritize security, but communication gaps persist. Boards and security teams each say they need more support to bridge the…
Read on Dark ReadingEscape Artists: 'Incorrigible' AI Models Resist Rehabilitation
The hacking of Hugging Face by a rogue OpenAI agent is significant, but unsurprising — and preventing the next AI model escape will be difficult, at best.
Read on Dark ReadingModel Context Protocol is going stateless to make scaling simpler
Model Context Protocol ( MCP ), the emerging standard for connecting AI models to external tools and enterprise data, is undergoing its biggest architectural overhaul…
Read on InfoWorldVatican's Official Prayer App Leaks 700K+ Global Users' PII
A porous API endpoint exposes, names, email addresses, country, and site status, all of which can be easily gleaned by anyone with a browser.
Read on Dark ReadingDefault Azure Automation Setting Enables Cross-Tenant Identity Takeover
Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's identity and…
Read on Dark ReadingTop AIs invent same fake PyPl and npm package names
Enterprise software developers continue to be in danger of falling victim to slopsquatting, where AI coding tools hallucinate the existence of nonexistent libraries and…
Read on InfoWorldThe Microsoft agent framework wars are over. The real architecture decision starts now
Over the past year, I had the same conversation with almost every team starting an AI initiative. Should we build on Semantic Kernel, AutoGen or Foundry? At first it…
Read on InfoWorldHow to execute queries in parallel using EF Core
EF Core is Microsoft’s flagship ORM (object-relational mapper), the software layer that allows .NET developers to work with relational databases. The DbContext class is…
Read on InfoWorldEurope's Multilingual Reality Exposes AI Security Gaps
The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.
Read on Dark ReadingVisual Studio Code 1.130 dresses up Agents window
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.130, an update to the code editor that brings several improvements to the Agents window, along with enhancements to the…
Read on InfoWorldRussian Hackers Exploit Zimbra Zero-Day Against US, Ukraine Targets
A state-sponsored threat group, dubbed "Laundry Bear," sends "half-click" phishing emails that require a victim only to open or preview the message.
Read on Dark ReadingNew pip flag fixes longstanding Python frustration
A new version of Python’s native package management tool, pip, will remove a limitation that has frustrated Python developers for years. If you wanted to install the…
Read on InfoWorldGoogle just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed…
Read on VentureBeat AIRailway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised…
Read on VentureBeat AIClaude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy…
Read on VentureBeat AIListen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers…
Read on VentureBeat AISalesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what…
Read on VentureBeat AIAnthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according…
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