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Ransomware negotiator who betrayed clients sentenced to 70 months in prison
A former ransomware negotiator at incident response firm DigitalMint has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after admitting he shared confidential client information with …
A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors
Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each …
The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer
Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, …
Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request
Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government …
AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity
Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow …
5,811 arrests, $293 million seized over social engineering scams
Criminals who pose as police officers, romantic partners, and business suppliers have built fraud operations that reach across continents. A four-month enforcement campaign …
Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them
Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. …
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers
Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …
Messaging fraud trends point to smarter attacks, stronger blocking
Fraudsters spent 2025 investing in scale. New routes, new tools, and higher message volumes moved through the SMS, voice, and chat channels that businesses rely on to reach …
A single malware file can outweigh an entire AI dataset
Antivirus vendors and security startups keep shipping AI features that promise to read malware the way a seasoned analyst would. The results inside security teams tell a …
macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents
Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, …
Review: Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store
Many people come to machine learning by training a model on a tidy dataset, and then meet a harder problem: making that model work for real users, on fresh data, every day. …
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