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AI And The Same Old Politicized Hysteria

Victor Davis HansonAmerican Greatness The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known S

1 min read 7 views Sep 23
Vulnerabilities

Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point rel

1 min read 3 views Sep 22
Other

Five Questions with new South Carolina basketball commit Frashad Tisby

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) — Frashad Tisby won’t be going far for his collegiate basketball career. The 6-foot-6 four-star small forward prospect out of Cross Creek High School committed to South Carolina Monday, choosing the Gamecocks over almost two dozen Power 4

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
Vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos finds malware that puts its next move to a four-model vote

Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Threat Intelligence group today released an open-source toolkit for hunting malware that has artificial intelligence built into it. The first sample it has detailed is a Windows credential stealer that takes its orders from no comma

1 min read 3 views Sep 22
Other

Machine vision company Cognex buys Intel robotics spin-off RealSense for $600M

U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued at around $600 million. Nasdaq-listed Cognex will pay aroun

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
Other

Machine vision company Cognex buys Intel robotics spinoff RealSense for $600M

U.S. machine vision company Cognex Corp. said today that it intends to buy RealSense Inc., the robotics and computer vision startup that was spun out of Intel Corp. 14 months earlier in a deal valued at around $600 million. Nasdaq-listed Cognex will pay aroun

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
AI Security

World Bank pushes digital data platforms for agriculture

The World Bank has proposed national agricultural data platforms to help Nigeria and other African countries build the infrastructure needed for AI in farm

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
Vulnerabilities

Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

A new Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM can query up to four LLM providers - Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral - to autonomously select from predefined post-compromise actions, including stealing users’ credentials and cryptocurrency wallets. Once deployed, the malware does not require co

3 min read 3 views Sep 22
Other

WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPress 7.1.2, with fixe

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
Other

Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named "tw-pkgprobe-7731," was

1 min read 4 views Sep 22
Breaches

Hacking group purports to have stolen FBI data in cyber attack

The digital extortion group known as ShinyHunters says it has stolen data about the majority of the FBI's current and former employees during a cyber attack. In a statement posted to its dark-web si

1 min read 2 views Sep 22
AI Security

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI counters with two cheaper GPT-6 models

Despite rampant worries about runaway artificial intelligence, the two big AI model makers aren’t yet slowing down: Anthropic PBC released Claude Opus 5.5 today and cut its price 20%, and minutes later OpenAI Group PBC put out two new GPT-6 models, Sol and Lu

1 min read 4 views Sep 22

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