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Omnigent
Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command …

Flipper Zero
Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules

Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper …

ClamAV
New ClamAV security patch closes seven scanner bugs dating back two decades

Open source antivirus scanning sits inside mail gateways, file upload checks, and endpoint tooling at organizations of every size. Much of that work runs through ClamAV, the …

SSH
Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login

Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from …

magnify
Catching ransomware on the wire before it locks the file server

Corporate networks keep sensitive files off individual workstations and store them on shared servers that staff reach through mapped network drives. That arrangement hands …

search
What the AI patch gap means for enterprise security

Open-source maintainers are receiving more vulnerability reports than they can act on, and a rising share now comes from an AI system working at machine speed. Over roughly …

danger
The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts

Accounts-payable staff at U.S. companies keep receiving invoice emails that look like they come from vendors they already work with. One landed at a life-sciences company in …

DNA
This supercomputer encrypts your data even while it’s running it

Most people who handle sensitive data already encrypt it in two places. They lock it down when it sits on a hard drive, and they lock it down when it moves across a network. …

Kali Linux
Kali Linux 2026.2 trims VM boot times, refreshes its desktops

Penetration testers who run Kali Linux inside virtual machines boot their systems faster after the 2026.2 release. The change comes from a decision about graphics firmware, …

containers
WSL containers now build and run Linux workloads on Windows

Containers power a large share of cloud-native applications, AI workloads, and testing and deployment pipelines. Developers working on Windows have long pulled in third-party …

compliance
Half the defense base still builds security around compliance

CMMC requirements are appearing in defense contracts and moving down through supplier networks to thousands of companies new to this kind of compliance work. Many run on …

face
Sycophantic chatbots and the harms that build over many chats

People use AI chatbots for company, advice, and emotional support, and these systems answer in ways meant to hold their attention. Researchers describe the resulting risks as …

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