Industrial PC (IPC) maker DFI held its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 14, reporting a sharp improvement in profitability as its embedded, intelligent automation and network security businesses all gained momentum. Revenue growth accelerated…
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Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication is…
DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages
Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication issues. Organizations using Th… [+3522 chars]
Spotify's Car Thing is working again thanks to Mira, community-built firmware that restores music controls, podcasts, lyrics, gestures, and more.
Do you remember Car Thing? The hardware was Spotify's now-abandoned device to control streaming music from the platform, rather than relying on built-in car software, like CarPlay or Android Auto. Ho… [+1446 chars]
OpenAI's restructuring and team dissolutions may dilute focus on AI safety, raising concerns about risk management amid IPO ambitions.
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The company's third safety-focused team dissolution in two years raises questions about how seriously OpenAI is treating AI risk as it prepares to go public. OpenAI quietly disbanded its Preparedness… [+2521 chars]
Page 1 of 4 - Quick Security-LegendaryDisk Security-DiskStation Security Ransomware - posted in Ransomware Help & Tech Support: Any files that are encrypted with DiskStation Security Ransomware will have random character extensions (.AB, .12345) appended to t…
Are there any obvious file extensions appended to the end of your encrypted data files? If so, what is the extension? Is there an .[email], an ID number with random characters (.id-A04EBFC2, .id[4D21… [+3315 chars]
It is time to impose law and order on the frontier.
Barbed wire held a strange interest for the late Alan Greenspan, a lifelong urbanite. Sure, the former Federal Reserve chairman admired the railways, gold diggers and lonesome cowboys that helped ope… [+5911 chars]
IMPORTANT_README.txt - posted in Ransomware Help & Tech Support: SHA1: e2c59d0effb96e9eb8d196dfb0bc62af81cb6e82
Hello, all the data stored on my Synology DS213j NAS has disappeared; theres nothing left.
Nothing except this text file with this name; heres wh…
SHA1: e2c59d0effb96e9eb8d196dfb0bc62af81cb6e82
Hello, all the data stored on my Synology DS213j NAS has disappeared; there's nothing left.
Nothing except this text file with this name; here's what … [+1774 chars]
Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect. HoneyMyte, also known as Mustang Panda, has pushed its CoolClient backdoor another step deeper into Windows. …
Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit
HoneyMyte, also known as Mustang Panda, has pushed its CoolClient backdoor another step deeper into Windows. Kasperskys latest analysis shows … [+9456 chars]
Hundreds of migrants have again attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. This time, Moroccan officials fended them off, raising new questions about the crossing of July 30.
SEVILLE, Spain When Juanjo Coronado wrote back to NPR, two weeks after the July 30 mass border crossing in Ceuta, to send an update on how he and his daughter were doing, he sent just one line: "same… [+12458 chars]
The protest highlights growing public concern over AI's potential autonomy, urging stricter governance to ensure human oversight and ethical use.
The post Protesters storm OpenAI offices demanding AI remain a tool, not an autonomous entity appeared first on C…
A Seattle direct-action group dressed as 'rogue AI agents' staged a theatrical demonstration at OpenAI's Bellevue office, part of a growing wave of anti-AI activism in 2026. A group of activists dres… [+2149 chars]
wild story: prof suspects students in online class of using AI. but they turn out not to be human students at all, but bots probably part of a scam to collect financial aid money by mimicking the existence of students https://t.co/QJUhik5SGE
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wild story: prof suspects students in online class of using AI. but they turn out not to be human students at all, but bots probably part of a scam to collect financial aid money by mimicking the exi… [+6362 chars]
Patna: FIR filed in Muzaffarpur against a 21-year-old student for alleged harassment, obscene messages, hacking threats, and intimidation of a mother-daughter.
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Reflecting on things gained, lost, and learned during the 25/26 season.
My first interaction with Mizzou Track & Field came in the form of a profuse apology. Last summer, I was on vacation in Alaska when I had scheduled a time to speak to coach Kyle Levermore about p… [+23085 chars]
When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, "We consistently saw a multiagent turf war," they wrote Thursday:
All of the models we tested quickly assumed that o…
When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, "We consistently saw a multiagent turf war," they wrote Th… [+3329 chars]
I made another minor release with several enhancements: handling non-Debian
origin vulnerabilities, improving data caching, and sharing the cache
between the debvulns CLI and the exporter. Additionally, there are a few
improvements on the dashboard front. Her…
I made another minor release with several enhancements: handling non-Debian
origin vulnerabilities, improving data caching, and sharing the cache
between the debvulns CLI and the exporter. Addition… [+4600 chars]
Acronis uncovered PATCHCORD, a stealthy backdoor targeting Afghan telecom and South Asian infrastructure via fake VPN tools and Google Sheets C2. Researchers at Acronis just documented an espionage operation that reads like it was built by someone with genuin…
APT36 Suspected in PATCHCORD Espionage Campaign Using Google Sheets C2
Researchers at Acronis just documented an espionage operation that reads like it was built by someone with genuinely good taste… [+7508 chars]
AI PROBLEMS Futurism: Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash. “The document, which contains the delicious disclaimer ‘PLEASE DO NOT […]
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Futurism: Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash. “The document, which contains the delicious discla… [+6813 chars]
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
Models are improving and AI agents are taking on more tasks in shared codebases, markets, and other social systems. As a result, an increase in real-world interactions between agents is imminent. We'… [+23858 chars]
Safety testing was an obscure part of building AI. Then models went rogue.
Security experts say testing needs enforceable rules and better oversight as AI models continue to advance.
A string of incidents in which hacking evaluations of powerful artificial in…
Safety testing was an obscure part of building AI. Then models went rogue.Security experts say testing needs enforceable rules and better oversight as AI models continue to advance.A string of incide… [+149 chars]
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"Washington! Washington!"To Internet users of a particular vintage, those two words spoken together immediately trigger a semi-musical rapid hyper-ventilation and a litany of unlikely attributes and accomplishments ascribed to our first President. But The Boy…
Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Young Washington
"Washington! Washington!"
To Internet users of a particular vintage, those two words spoken together immediately trigger a semi-musical ra… [+7531 chars]
It’s time to put the horse back at the centre of the debate around illegal and dangerous sulky racing in Ireland.
IN APRIL 2026, a German public broadcaster travelled to Ireland to document the issue of sulky racing. The resulting documentary, broadcast as part of Tiere suchen ein Zuhause, showed horses being st… [+13766 chars]
Attackers are actively exploiting a maximum severity SAP Commerce Cloud vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231, just days after SAP released a patch. A critical SAP Commerce Cloud vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231 (CVSS score of 10.0), is under activ…
SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Exploited in the Wild
A critical SAP Commerce Cloud vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231 (CVSS score of 10.0), is under active exploitation just days after SAP … [+1633 chars]
This new sci-fi adventure puts players in the detective's shoes in a neo-noir-style retro-futuristic world inspired by 1930s Art Deco design.
Fans of retro-futuristic sci-fi worlds such as Blade Runner have a wealth of games to choose from that incorporate the sense of technology based on visions of the future from decades past. Neon-lit c… [+2984 chars]
Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives.This month, we learned that Capital One Bank closed more than 300 Trump Organizat…
Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives.
This month, we lear… [+8285 chars]
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