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Germany arrests alleged core member of Qilin ransomware group
A Russian national believed to be a leading figure in the Qilin ransomware group has been extradited from Japan to Germany. He was detained in Osaka after flying in as a tourist.
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Python 3.15 released
The new release of the Python language brings the sentinel and frozendict built-in types, UTF-8 encoding by default, and further work on the experimental JIT compiler.
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GoBalance Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack .onion Addresses
A bug in GoBalance, a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone recover the secret key behind a site's .onion address from public data alone — and seize the address.
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Microsoft: Outdated Windows Devices Will Stop Getting Security Updates
The company warns that devices running unsupported versions of Windows will stop receiving security updates after next year's planned rotation of Windows Update certificates.
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OpenAI stands by its firing of three AI safety researchers
The company says it dismissed Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for a "significant breach of trust," not for speaking out. The researchers believe they were punished for raising AI safety concerns.
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Quake rewritten in safe Rust and running in the browser
id Software's 1996 Quake has been ported from its open GPL sources to Rust and now runs right in the browser — no GPU, no dependencies, software-rendered.
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Citrix Urges Admins to Patch New NetScaler RCE Flaw at Once
A critical flaw in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway allows remote code execution or a denial-of-service crash. No active attacks have been seen yet, but more than 21,000 appliances remain exposed online.
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The Data Center of the Future
A fully autonomous, secure data center in the ru-siber128-z zone.
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Rolling the DNS Root Key: October 11 and a List of Laggard ISPs
Ahead of the latest DNSSEC root key rollover, Geoff Huston measures how many resolvers already trust the new key and names the networks that may run into trouble.
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AI Agent Resources Proposed for the Linux Kernel
A new proposal for the upstream Linux kernel introduces "resources" for AI agents. The first such skill would automatically add a "Fixes:" tag to patches.
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Bevy 0.20 Released: Path Tracing, WESL Shaders and a Refined Scene Syntax
The Rust game engine Bevy ships a major update: a faster Solari path tracer now running on macOS, a move to the WESL shader standard, and a polished BSN scene system.
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Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
The new OSS Scanner service promises opted-in projects regular checks by the company's "strongest models." The catch: its reports come with no human review.
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FBI takes down Chinese Flax Typhoon hacking tools
The FBI has seized seven domains that China's Flax Typhoon group used to run MicroScan and FishHub — tools deployed to scan and breach critical infrastructure worldwide.
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Let's Encrypt to cut certificate lifetimes to 64 days
Starting February 2027, free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt authority will be valid for just 64 days.
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OpenAI's Revenue Comes In $20 Billion Below Earlier Projections
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion — not the roughly $70 billion reported earlier.
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Ransomware attack knocks out Japan's IDCF Cloud
SoftBank subsidiary IDC Frontier says its IDCF Cloud service was hit by ransomware. The outage struck a data center cluster in eastern Japan and affected nearly 500 customers, including government bodies.
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Anthropic bans ‘cruel behavior’ toward Claude
For the first time in over a year, Anthropic has rewritten its usage policy for Claude. Among the new bans — election interference, weapons development and surveillance, and, most strikingly, “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward the model itself.
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Ubuntu Website Down Amid Sustained DDoS Attack
The official Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and related resources have become unavailable amid a confirmed, ongoing distributed denial-of-service attack.
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US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from skilled-worker green card program
The Trump administration is suspending several tech companies from a permanent-residency program, accusing them of fraud. The list also includes Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.
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Nova Driver Keeps Advancing: A Rust-Based NVIDIA Kernel Driver Aiming for Official Use
At the LPC2026 conference in Prague, engineers from NVIDIA and Red Hat shared the progress on Nova — an open-source Linux kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust.
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