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Australian Intelligence Breaks Into Amadey Backend, Cuts Off 180,000 Infected Computers
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) gained access to the backend of a criminal operation built on the Amadey malware and severed its operator's link to 180,000 infected machines worldwide.
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Brooks's Law in the Age of AI Agents: Not Repealed, Just Mutated
Jan van den Berg asks whether the famous principle from The Mythical Man-Month still holds when the newcomers are AI agents rather than people. His answer: the overhead hasn't gone away, it has just moved.
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CPython's JIT compiler to be removed after PEP 836 is withdrawn
The authors of CPython's experimental JIT compiler have withdrawn PEP 836 after failing to satisfy the Python steering council. The code is likely to be removed from the main branch soon.
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CERT-UA: Attackers Hijack Dahua Cameras in Ukraine via P2P Service and Weak Authentication
Ukraine's computer emergency response team has warned of unauthorized access to Dahua IP cameras and video recorders. The main loophole is the Easy4IP cloud P2P service combined with predictable device serial numbers.
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Hob: an open-source, on-device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT
Frigade has released Hob, a free MIT-licensed desktop app. It runs open-weight language models locally on Mac, Windows and Linux and works offline.
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DreamHost forces password resets amid ongoing incident
Web hosting provider DreamHost has locked access to email and FTP/SFTP and forced password resets after a disruption that began with its File Manager and spread to other services.
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953 Online Stores Hit by JavaScript That Hides From Scanners
Since July 2025 an unknown group has planted a malicious loader in Magento stores — code that tells real shoppers apart from security scanners and only serves its payload to live visitors.
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OpenAI unveils GPT-6.1 Terra: three times faster, half the price
OpenAI's new model targets computer use, visual reasoning and coding — at half the price of its predecessors and with markedly fewer mistakes.
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SpaceX locks in $40B to buy AI chips
The company disclosed what it calls a record-setting GPU leasing arrangement with Apollo to fund chips and data center gear.
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AdFection: Spyware Delivered to Journalists Through an Ad Network — Without a Single Click
Citizen Lab researchers describe a first-of-its-kind attack that fuses malvertising with zero-click infection: the surveillance ad-tech ecosystem turned into a precision delivery channel for spyware.
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees
The company is rolling out a "voluntary exit" program for tens of thousands of workers in the US, UK, Canada, and India, aiming to shrink headcount without another round of layoffs.
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When an AI Agent Is the Incident, the Identity Record Is the Evidence
A joint NIST, CISA and NSA guide urges rehearsing scenarios where AI agents act on their own. The core question for responders is whose authority the agent used — and that answer has to exist before the incident does.
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Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Let Malicious WebAssembly Escape the Sandbox
Wasmtime's maintainers disclosed two critical bugs in the Cranelift compiler that let an attacker-controlled WebAssembly module break out of the isolating sandbox. Fixes landed on October 19 and 20.
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Anthropic files for IPO under the ticker “ANT”
The AI developer’s prospectus reveals soaring revenue, multibillion-dollar losses, and an unusual governance structure that keeps control in the hands of its seven co-founders.
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Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Campaign Hits 79 Organizations
Huntress detailed a campaign in which attackers captured sign-in sessions via an adversary-in-the-middle relay and replayed the stolen tokens, breaking into 97 accounts.
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Kali Linux 2026.3 arrives with six new tools and kernel 7.1.5
The third Kali release of the year updates 126 packages, adds six new utilities and reworks the build scripts used to produce official images.
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PHP2Shell flaws confirmed exploited in the wild for the first time
Researchers have recorded the first successful remote code execution via PHP2Shell — a pair of critical flaws that PHP developers have already patched. Until now, every exploitation attempt had come up empty.
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IBM CEO: open-weight models are now good and cheap to run on-prem
IBM's chief executive says open-weight models have reached a point where it makes sense for companies to run them on their own infrastructure.
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Grok drops the first seven minutes of its AI-made ‘Odyssey’
xAI's model has put out the "first episode" of the Homer adaptation Elon Musk promised. The picture holds up fine — as long as you don't expect any art from it.
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A decade-old CNN beats frontier LLMs at diagnosing skin cancer
A British dermatologist pitted GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 against an old Inception v3 network fine-tuned in twenty minutes. On 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, the old network was markedly more accurate.
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