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Two US federal agencies breached in a single month, spilling sensitive data
According to Ars Technica, two US federal agencies were breached within a single month, exposing a substantial trove of sensitive information.
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Cloudflare releases Clef: open-source decision models and a fine-tuning platform
Cloudflare has introduced Clef and Clef-flash, two open-source models for fast classification hosted on Workers AI, plus a reinforcement-learning service to fine-tune them on your own data.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman on the LLM bug deluge: “don’t panic”
At Kernel Recipes 2026, Greg Kroah-Hartman explained how the Linux kernel's security team is coping with the flood of vulnerability reports unleashed by large language models.
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FTC Probes Product Risks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Firms
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into leading AI developers over the potential dangers of their products — the latest pressure on an industry increasingly uneasy about its own pace.
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Rust 1.99.0 Released: C-ABI Variadics and Layout Info from Raw Pointers
The Rust team has shipped version 1.99.0. The headline features are the ability to write C-ABI variadic functions in Rust itself and to query size and alignment through raw pointers to non-Sized types.
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Police take down KillSec ransomware gang allegedly run by a 16-year-old
An international effort codenamed Operation KillSwitch seized the servers and leak site of the KillSec ransomware gang, arrested three suspects, and named a 16-year-old as its alleged lead operator.
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OpenAI's Dots agent takes on Meta — but can it beat free?
At DevDay, Sam Altman unveiled Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. But where it matters most, it trails Meta's rival: Dots costs money, while Muse is free.
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Qualcomm Keeps Expanding Its Open-Source Linux GPU Drivers
At XDC 2026 in Toronto, Rob Clark outlined Qualcomm's latest work on the upstream open-source graphics driver stack for Linux.
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The Connected Car as a Surveillance Platform
Researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports examined how much modern cars spy on their drivers — and who ends up with the data.
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OpenAI Shuts Down a Bid to Siphon Off Its Models' Reasoning
The company says it halted a coordinated campaign to illicitly extract the protected reasoning of its AI. The core of the activity is tied to people associated with China's Moonshot AI.
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Why example.com changed: IANA explains
Oliver Dunk emailed IANA to ask about the updated content on example.com — and unexpectedly got a reply straight from the organization's VP.
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Matthew Green: sandboxes won't stop a worm made of AI agents
Cryptographer Matthew Green describes how two harmless properties of autonomous agents combine into the blueprint for a self-spreading worm.
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Huntress Reports VMware ESXi Exploitation in the Wild
Researchers at Huntress have observed exploitation of a VMware ESXi hypervisor flaw that allows an attacker to escape the confines of a virtual machine.
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MetaMask Exits Ethereum Validators After Security Incident
The crypto wallet maker says it is responding to an "ongoing security incident" affecting part of its infrastructure and is proactively exiting affected staking validators as a precaution.
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Valve Brings Foveated Rendering to the Open-Source Turnip Driver for Steam Frame
As part of developing its Steam Frame VR headset, Valve is adding foveated rendering support to the open-source Mesa Turnip driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.
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OpenMandriva ROME 26.09: A Long-Overdue Release After Technical Woes and Alleged Sabotage
The OpenMandriva team has shipped the long-awaited ROME 26.09, bringing more AI applications, Snap support, and PGO plus LTO build optimizations. The previous release dated all the way back to December 2024.
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Debian ships a major rsync upgrade to fix 33 CVEs
Rather than backport patches one by one, the maintainer bumped the whole package. The fixes bring behavior changes that may break existing setups.
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A GitHub 'Torture Chamber' for LLMs Ignites AI's Most Absurd Debate Yet
Someone built a 'torture chamber' for local language models and streams their 'suffering' online. The project has set off a fierce fight over 'model welfare'.
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No Warrant Needed: US Agents Can Search Your Phone at the Border
An immigration advocate is suing border agents who demanded his cell phone — a reminder that the "border exemption" to your rights is very real.
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EDG Open-Sources Its C/C++ Compiler and Winds Down
Edison Design Group has announced it is shutting down and releasing its C/C++ front end — the very one behind Visual Studio's IntelliSense. The code is now on GitHub.
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