Security researchers are warning about a max severity vulnerability in Google Gemini CLI that could allow remote code execution (RCE) in environments where the tool processes untrusted inputs. The issue was disclosed by Novee Security researchers and affects the @google/gemini-cli package and its associated GitHub Action, widely used in CI/CD workflows. “Gemini CLI (@google/gemini-cli) and…
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EtherRAT Distribution Spoofing Administrative Tools via GitHub Facades
Intro A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts by impersonating administrative utilities they rely on for daily operations. By integrating Search Engine Order (SEO)
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Police dismantles 9 crypto scam centers, arrests 276 suspects
A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. […]
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AI venture funding to shoot up this year as bubble looms
Venture funding of AI companies in 2026 will easily smash funding records set in 2025, with some heavy deals already consummated in the first quarter, according to market researchers. Data from Crunchbase shows that $300 billion poured into 6,000 startups worldwide during the first quarter of 2026. That’s a quarterly record for venture funding in…
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Europol Busts Albanian Scam Call Centers in Major Online Fraud Case
European police arrested 10 suspects after dismantling Albanian scam call centers linked to a €50m ($58m) online investment fraud operation
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Everyone’s building AI agents. Almost nobody’s ready for what they do to identity.
Anthropic recently announced that it would not release Mythos, its most powerful AI model, to the public. The model discovered thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities — flaws that had sat undetected in major operating systems and web browsers for as long as nearly three decades. Anthropic said the model was too dangerous to deploy…
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SAP npm package attack highlights risks in developer tools and CI/CD pipelines
A supply chain attack on SAP-related npm packages has put fresh scrutiny on the developer tools and build workflows that enterprises rely on to produce software. The campaign, referred to as “mini Shai-Hulud,” affected packages used in SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application development ecosystem. The malicious versions added installation-time code that could steal developer credentials,…
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The Clock Is Ticking for Big Tech to Make AI Pay
Depreciation charges are eating into earnings at Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon.
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How Silicon Valley’s Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School
Tech executives built the ‘it’ school for their gifted kids. Lawsuits, internal feuding and a breakaway followed.
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Researchers develop tool to expose GPS signal spoofing in transit networks
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a portable detector that identifies GPS spoofing in real time, including during motion, to help protect transportation systems. Spoofing involves transmitting counterfeit signals that imitate authentic GPS transmissions and produce false information about location, time, or both. GPS jamming, another form of interference, overwhelms receivers with noise…
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New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori. “An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of…
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Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and introduces parallel processing for sync jobs. The server ships the new version with Linux kernel 7.0 as the stable default and ZFS 2.4 for storage operations. Updated packages, broader hardware…
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Hackers arrested for stealing and reselling 600,000 Roblox accounts
Ukrainian police detained three suspects accused of hacking into Roblox accounts and reselling the data on Russian websites, with payments made in cryptocurrency. Police raid (Source: The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine) “Prosecutors of the Lviv region, together with the cyber police and the Security Service of Ukraine, have stopped the activities of a group…
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Meta accused of violating DSA by failing to safeguard minors
The European Commission accuses Meta of failing to protect children, allowing users under 13 on Instagram and Facebook, in breach of the DSA rules. The European Commission has accused Meta of violating child safety rules. Instagram and Facebook allegedly failed to prevent children under 13 from accessing their platforms. According to the Commission, Meta did…
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Cyber is the Number One Global “People Risk,” Says Marsh
Marsh’s 2026 People Risks survey finds cyber‑related challenges dominate, as cyber‑threat literacy tops risks and cyber and AI skills shortages rise
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Stopping the quiet drift toward excessive agency with re-permissioning
In their infancy, LLM models were not difficult to contain. You gave a prompt; they responded, and if something was wrong it was usually “just text.” This could take the form of a summary that missed the best bits, a tone-deaf line or a wordy sentence. But then, agents were co-opted as the core reasoning…
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This month in security with Tony Anscombe – April 2026 edition
Warnings about helpdesk impersonation scams and Iran-linked hackers targeting critical sectors in the US, plus the most damaging scams of 2025 – here’s some of what made the headlines this month
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Iran-linked Handala hackers leak US Marines data, send chilling WhatsApp threats
US Marines stationed around the Persian Gulf have been receiving WhatsApp messages from strangers suggesting they call home and make their final goodbyes. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability “Copy Fail” Enables Full Root Access
Linux Kernel Vulnerability “Copy Fail” lets attackers gain root access via memory flaw. Patch now or disable algif_aead to stay secure.
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Large-scale Roblox hacking operation shut down by Ukrainian authorities
Ukrainian police arrested three hackers who hijacked 610,000 Roblox accounts and sold them for $225,000 in profit. Police in Ukraine arrested three suspects accused of hacking over 610,000 Roblox accounts and selling them for about $225,000. Officers carried out multiple searches in Lviv, seizing cash, phones, computers, laptops, tablets, and USB drives. The operation disrupted…
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From Robotic to Remarkable: How to Use a Free AI Detector and Bypasser to Level Up Your Writing
In this post, I will show you how to use a free AI detector and bypasser to level up your writing. Let’s be honest: AI has changed the game for anyone who writes. Whether you’re a college student racing against a midnight deadline or a professional drafting a high-stakes report, tools like ChatGPT have become…
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Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI — the “@google/gemini-cli” npm package and the “google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli” GitHub Actions workflow — that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on host systems. “The vulnerability allowed an unprivileged external attacker to force their own malicious content to load as Gemini configuration,”
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Scaling up a tech startup in Europe is hard — ‘EU Inc.’ aims to help
Europe produces a large number of new tech startups each year – 28 crossed the $1 billion valuation mark in 2025 alone – yet few become global technology leaders. Many that do succeed look elsewhere to scale, particularly in the US. Founders point to multiple barriers to growing their business in the European Union (EU),…
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Anti-Ransomware Awareness Day (12 May): Why Australian businesses must shift from prevention to cyber resilience
Anti-Ransomware Awareness Day (12 May): Why Australian businesses must shift from prevention to cyber resilience. Opinion & Analysis coverage from iTWire.
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Automated LLM red teaming gets a learning layer
Automated red teaming of large language models has settled into a familiar pattern over the past two years. An attacker model generates jailbreak attempts against a target model, an evaluator scores the results, and the cycle repeats. Two approaches dominate. One asks the attacker to invent strategies through trial and error, which tends to produce…
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Bad bots make up 40% of internet traffic
The normalization of AI and automation within internet infrastructure is changing how organizations interpret traffic. Activity that once appeared anomalous is now treated as expected behavior. AI agents have emerged as a third category of automated traffic alongside good and bad bots, according to the Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic…
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Training on Fiction While the Real Threat is in Your Inbox
By: Josh Bartolomie, Chief Security Officer The Illusion of Readiness I have spent a good portion of my career inside and around security awareness programs, watching them evolve from afterthought compliance checkboxes to multimillion-dollar platform investments. Along the way, I have seen a pattern repeat itself more times than I can count: organizations running the…
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Warp open sources its AI terminal client
Warp, the AI-centric terminal used by close to a million developers, has released the source code for its client on GitHub under the AGPL license, with OpenAI signed on as the founding sponsor of the repository. An agent-first contribution model Warp is steering contributions through Oz, its cloud agent orchestration platform. Agents handle the bulk…
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ReadySteadyPlug receives $1.51 million ARENA funding to accelerate national rollout of affordable EV chargers in apartments
ReadySteadyPlug receives $1.51 million ARENA funding to accelerate national rollout of affordable EV chargers in apartments. Energy coverage from iTWire.
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, April 30th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9912, (Thu, Apr 30th)
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Lotto New Zealand successfully rolls out a once-in-a-generation gaming system replacement
Lotto New Zealand successfully rolls out a once-in-a-generation gaming system replacement. Enterprise Solutions coverage from iTWire.
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Azure SQL vs SQL Server: Which One Should You Choose for Your Next Project?
Company News: Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service.
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White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model
The relationship between the administration and the company is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to ease tensions.
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Big Tech Strikes Gold With AI, but at a Steep Cost
While Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon ride AI to strong earnings, some investors are still worried about the level of spending.
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
Designed to cripple Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, the 2010 Stuxnet worm set a cybersecurity precedent as the first time a nation escalated its activities from strategic espionage to sabotage in cyberspace. Now, a new discovery suggests such operations were in full swing years before Stuxnet came to light. Researchers from SentinelOne have tracked down samples…
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Adaptive Security Leadership in an Expanding Threat Surface
Last week I joined fellow security leaders at CISO Inspire Summit North for a panel discussion on The Expanding Threat Surface: Adaptive Security Leadership for 2026 and Beyond. It was a timely discussion, because the challenge facing security leaders today is not simply more threats. It is more connections, more dependencies, and more complexity. Suppliers, SaaS, identities, automation…
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A New Chapter in Alzheimer’s Care Begins in Australia, But Access Remains the Real Test
*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(–scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(–thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(–header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]” dir=”auto” data-turn-id=”request-WEB:d157b42f-f595-4291-a196-6b04707088a5-6″ data-testid=”conversation-turn-8″ data-scroll-anchor=”false” data-turn=”assistant”> This month, it has been announced that Australia is beginning to see the real world impact of its first disease modifying Alzheimer’s therapies, marking a pivotal moment in a field that for decades has struggled to move beyond symptom management.
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Danger of Libredtail [Guest Diary], (Wed, Apr 29th)
[This is a Guest Diary by James Roberts, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the last few months, I have gained valuable experience working with the Internet Storm Center (ISC) operating a honeypot and analyzing its output via a SIEM environment. This work gave me hands on experience with system…
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Claude Mythos Fears Startle Japan’s Financial Services Sector
Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic’s new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren’t quite as worried.
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SoftBank Plots IPO for New Robotics Venture
Roze AI plans to focus on AI and robotics, an area CEO Masayoshi Son sees as the ‘next frontier’ for SoftBank.
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Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of organisations. All for some free in-game currency. Meanwhile, there’s a 1980s phone protocol called…
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Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Growth, but Questions About AI Returns Persist
Sales reached $82.9 billion in the January-to-March quarter, exceeding Wall Street analysts’ expectations.
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Official SAP npm packages compromised to steal credentials
Multiple official SAP npm packages were compromised in what is believed to be a TeamPCP supply-chain attack to steal credentials and authentication tokens from developers’ systems. […]
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Visual Studio Code 1.118 adds auto model selection to Copilot CLI
Microsoft’s editor releases continue on a monthly cadence, with the Insiders build of Visual Studio Code 1.118. The update concentrates on the Copilot CLI integration, session management in the Agents app, and an opt-in path for TypeScript 7.0. Copilot CLI gains auto model selection Two separate entries in the changelog add automatic model selection to…
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Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years
The Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, installed on more than 70,000 WordPress sites, had a backdoor added five years ago that allows injecting arbitrary code into users’ sites. […]
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Australia’s Inflation Reality Check: When Policy Levers Pull in Opposite Directions
Australia’s rising inflation is being blamed on global forces and the Reserve Bank, but economists point to a deeper issue: domestic policy settings that may be working against the fight to bring prices under control. Have you wondered why the Treasurer continues to point to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Middle East, and supply…
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Cursor AI Agent Wipes PocketOS Database and Backups in 9 Seconds
PocketOS founder says Cursor AI agent deleted its production database in 9 seconds after misusing a root API token, exposing major Railway security flaws.
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cPanel Vulnerability Exposes Servers to Takeover
An authentication vulnerability in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) is putting web hosting environments at risk, prompting the company to release an emergency patch and warn administrators to act quickly. The flaw affects multiple authentication paths and could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to servers if left unpatched. “Let’s call this what it…
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Hackers exploit RCE flaws in Qinglong task scheduler for cryptomining
Hackers are exploiting two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the Qinglong open-source task scheduling tool to deploy cryptominers on developers’ servers. […]
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Meta Reports Big Revenue Jump and Projected Spending Increase
Meta Platforms posted its biggest quarterly revenue jump in recent history in the first quarter but said it would spend even more money to build out AI data centers this year than forecast.
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Amazon.com Posts Double-Digit Growth Anchored by Booming Web Services
The retail and cloud-computing giant beat analyst estimates with a 17% jump in revenue and sharp increase in net profit.
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Auvik Unveils Aurora AI Agents for Proactive IT Management
IT management software provider Auvik has announced the launch of Auvik Aurora, AI-powered IT agents designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimize their networks. AI agents target network visibility and ticket resolution According to Auvik, its new AI agents aim to bridge the gap created by IT teams managing an increasing number…
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Tines Targets Partner-Led Growth in North America
Tines is expanding its channel and technology partner ecosystem as enterprise demand grows for intelligent workflows that connect automation, AI, and human decision-making across security and IT operations. The intelligent workflow platform announced 75 new technology partners for fiscal year 2026, along with 25% growth in its channel partner network. The company said collaborations with…
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Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Growth, Easing Fears Over AI Spending
Sales reached $82.9 billion in the January-to-March quarter, exceeding Wall Street expectations.
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SAS Introduces AI Navigator, Enhances SAS Viya
SAS Innovate 2026 has kicked off in Grapevine, Texas, and the data and AI organization has made several key announcements to coincide with the large-scale event. SAS is now focused on the transition from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI, as AI is increasingly embedded in business processes and no longer operates solely as a tool. The…
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Google Reports 81% Jump in Profits, Beating Wall Street Expectations
The tech giant’s revenue rises 22% in the first quarter.
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realestate.com.au attracts the buyer for 9 in 10 listed homes that sell on the platform
New PropTrack data reveals the impact realestate.com.au has on property sales, with the platform helping Australian buyers find ‘the one’
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realestate.com.au attracts the buyer for 9 in 10 listed homes that sell on the platform
realestate.com.au attracts the buyer for 9 in 10 listed homes that sell on the platform. AI and Data coverage from iTWire.
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CVE-2026-42208: LiteLLM bug exploited 36 hours after its disclosure
Attackers quickly exploited a critical LiteLLM flaw (CVE-2026-42208) to access and modify sensitive database data via SQL injection. Attackers rapidly exploited a critical vulnerability in LiteLLM Python package, tracked as CVE-2026-42208, just days after it became public. The vulnerability, an SQL injection in the proxy API key verification process, lets attackers access and potentially modify database…
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Reverse Engineering With AI Unearths High-Severity GitHub Bug
Wiz used an AI reverse-engineering tool to pinpoint a vulnerability that previously would have been too costly and time-consuming to undertake.
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Customers to join REA Group Hackdays event to accelerate industry innovation
REA Group is opening its red doors this September, offering customers an opportunity to immerse themselves in its flagship innovation event, Hackdays.
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Customers to join REA Group Hackdays event to accelerate industry innovation
Customers to join REA Group Hackdays event to accelerate industry innovation. AI and Data coverage from iTWire.
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GitHub Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution With a Single Git Push
A vulnerability in GitHub’s infrastructure could have allowed attackers to execute code on backend systems using nothing more than a standard git push command. The flaw affected both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES), exposing millions of repositories to potential compromise before it was patched. “By exploiting an injection flaw in GitHub’s internal protocol, any…
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AI Finds 38 Security Flaws in Electronic Health Record Platform
Flaws in OpenEMR’s platform — used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers — enabled database compromise, remote code execution, and data theft.
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Designing trust and safety into Amazon Bedrock powered applications
Generative AI brings promising innovation, transforming how individuals and organizations approach everything from customer service to content creation and more. As AI continues to expand its capabilities, organizations are increasingly focused on how they can integrate the responsible AI concepts into the development lifecycle of their AI applications. Research from Accenture and Amazon Web Services…
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Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers
The growth of data centers — and adversaries’ targeting of them — left lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday contemplating whether the federal government has the right setup for defending them. Some industry witnesses and experts at the hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection testified that the answer might be…
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Meta Will Run Some Servers Longer in Response to Memory Shortage
The company is extending the useful life of some of its data center servers from six to seven years as it grapples with a “significant server supply deficit” due to the shortage of memory chips, according to two internal memos viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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Hackers arrested for hijacking and selling 610,000 Roblox accounts
The Ukrainian police have arrested three individuals who hacked more than 610,000 Roblox gaming accounts and sold them for a profit of $225,000. […]
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Dreame Launches More Than 20 Smart Home Products at DREAME NEXT Living Next Showcase, Highlighting Bionic Robotic Arm Platform Expansion
Dreame Technology, a global high-end technology company, today launched more than 20 smart home products and dozens of industry-first technologies at the Living Next segment of DREAME NEXT in San Francisco. The centerpiece of the showcase is the expansion of Dreame’s bionic robotic arm technology into air conditioners, range hoods, steam ovens, and dishwashers, demonstrating how a core capability continuously evolves and compounds across product categories. Dreame first introduced bionic robotic arm technology in 2023. The technology has since been continuously refined…
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Dreame Launches More Than 20 Smart Home Products at DREAME NEXT Living Next Showcase, Highlighting Bionic Robotic Arm Platform Expansion
Dreame Launches More Than 20 Smart Home Products at DREAME NEXT Living Next Showcase, Highlighting Bionic Robotic Arm Platform Expansion. Your Tech coverage…
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Academic Lisa Talia Moretti Explains How Organisations Can Stop Misusing AI
iTWire TV: Lisa Talia Moretti is a digital sociologist. She talks about how organisations are misuing AI (whether they know it or not) and how they can address this.
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Dreame Launches Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition at DREAME NEXT: Dual E-engine and Rocket-Powered Intelligent Vehicle with 0.9-Second 0-100 km/h Sprint
Dreame Technology, a global high-end technology company, today officially launched the Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition at the Drive Next segment of DREAME NEXT in San Francisco.
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Dreame Launches Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition at DREAME NEXT: Dual E-engine and Rocket-Powered Intelligent Vehicle with 0.9-Second 0-100 km/h Sprint
Dreame Launches Nebula NEXT 01 JET Edition at DREAME NEXT: Dual E-engine and Rocket-Powered Intelligent Vehicle with 0.9-Second 0-100 km/h Sprint….
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Edward & George Hartley On Startups, Bluethumb And Their New AI Email Tool, Nitrosend
iTWire TV: Founders Edward & George Hartley told iTWire about the wrench of exiting Bluethumb and launching their new AI email management tool, Nitrosend (because Claude couldn’t cut it), at Adelaide’s Southstart.
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Laptop Service Center Dubai Sports City: Why Pro Athletes and Esports Tenants Are Driving a New Repair Cluster
In the latest development, I will talk about Laptop Service Center Dubai Sports City and show you why Pro Athletes and Esports tenants are driving a new repair cluster. Dubai, UAE – A district designed for football academies and motorsport facilities has quietly become one of Dubai’s busiest computer repair zones. Service ticket data from…
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Vocus launches Pure: new channel partner program combining Vocus & TPG networks, and improved value for partners
Vocus today announced the launch of Pure, a new partner program that gives technology solution providers access to the combined scale of the legacy Vocus and TPG networks, a harmonised product roadmap and a redesigned commissions framework.
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Vocus launches Pure: new channel partner program combining Vocus & TPG networks, and improved value for partners
Vocus launches Pure: new channel partner program combining Vocus & TPG networks, and improved value for partners. Telecoms And Nbn coverage from iTWire.
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Craig Swan Tells iTWire About Adelaide’s Southstart Festival And Australia’s Startup Scene
iTWire TV: Oldtimers will know that Australian start-up events can promise much and deliver little. Adelaide’s Southstart is different and here’s why…
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Ariella Heffernan-Marks On Ovum AI: The First AI Health Partner For Women
iTWire TV: iTWire went to Southstart in Adelaide and learned about Dr Heffernan-Marks views on using AI for good and without bias or halucinations.
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Paz Pisarski From The Community Collective Talks Community Building And Southstart
iTWire TV: We talk to Paz Pisarski, at Adelaide’s Southstart start-up festival, about the conference and how new and big brands alike can build communities of customers.
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New AI-Powered Bluekit Phishing Kit Targets Major Platforms with MFA Bypass Attacks
Bluekit Phishing Kit is a new PhaaS tool that targets major platforms, using AiTM techniques to steal session data and bypass MFA protections.
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Anti‑Ransomware Awareness Day (12 May): Why Australian businesses must shift from prevention to cyber resilience
As organisations become reliant on data to operate reliably and effectively, Anti-Ransomware Awareness Day (12 May) invites businesses to recognise that ransomware has become a real, persistent risk, not just a hypothetical.
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Viasat Confirms Successful Launch and Initial Signal Acquisition of ViaSat-3 F3
Successful ViaSat–3 F3 launch advances Viasat’s global, multi-orbit network strategy Designed to Deliver 1 Tbps of Capacity, ViaSat–3 F3 to Significantly Expand Flexible, Resilient, High-Speed Connectivity Across the Asia-Pacific Region Later this Year
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Viasat Confirms Successful Launch and Initial Signal Acquisition of ViaSat-3 F3
Viasat Confirms Successful Launch and Initial Signal Acquisition of ViaSat-3 F3. Space coverage from iTWire.
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SAP npm Packages Compromised by “Mini Shai-Hulud” Credential-Stealing Malware
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Google-owned Wiz, the campaign – calling itself the mini Shai-Hulud – has affected the following packages associated with SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application
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Polymarket Rejects Data Breach Claims as Hacker Alleges 300K Records Stolen
A hacker using the alias “Xorcat” claims to have breached Polymarket using API flaws, but research suggests the leak could be just data scraping incident.
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cPanel, WHM emergency update fixes critical auth bypass bug
A critical vulnerability affecting all but the latest versions of cPanel and the WebHost Manager (WHM) dashboard could be exploited to obtain access to the control panel without authentication. […]
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Apple will be behind on AI — until it isn’t
Apple is building new AI photo editing tools to introduce with its next major software updates this fall, and these won’t be the only AI tools and services it wants to talk about at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in a few weeks’ time. While it is correct to say Apple has had setbacks in AI…
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Police bust scam call centres behind €50 million in fraud losses
Authorities have dismantled a cybercrime ring running call centres in Albania and defrauding victims of more than €50 million, arresting 10 suspects and seizing nearly €900,000. Seized cash from the fraud operation (Source: Eurojust) After a spike in victims in Vienna in June 2023, Austrian authorities traced cyber fraud activity to Albanian suspects, triggering a…
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Elon Musk Takes Stand in Second Day of Trial Against OpenAI
The billionaire, who helped found the ChatGPT-maker, was set to face hours of cross-examination from OpenAI’s lawyers.
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Vect 2.0 Ransomware Acts as Wiper, Thanks to Design Error
The emerging ransomware has been deployed against victims of the TeamPCP supply chain attacks, but organizations should think twice before paying for a decryptor.
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From Mailbox to Revenue: Top 7 Direct Mail Platforms That Actually Deliver Results
In this post, I will show you the top 7 direct mail platforms that actually deliver results. Direct mail is no longer the slow, analog underdog of the marketing world. Today, the most forward-thinking brands are pairing physical mail with data intelligence, automation, and API-driven workflows to outperform purely digital campaigns. Whether you are a…
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Cursor Extension Flaw Exposes Developer API Keys
Cursor flaw lets extensions steal API keys and session tokens without user interaction, according to researchers at LayerX
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Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches
New partnership with Google will allow businesses to sell inside AI Mode and the Gemini app Stripe launches wallets for agents, powered by Link, and support for new AI-native business models Major expansion to Stripe Treasury, including instant, free money transfers between businesses on Stripe
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Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches
Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches. AI and Data coverage from iTWire.
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However,…
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European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring
Austrian and Albanian authorities dismantled a criminal ring accused of running a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation that caused estimated losses of over €50 million ($58.5 million) to victims worldwide. […]
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Dematic brings Multishuttle FD to Australia, Unlocking Scalable, High-Density Storage without over Investment
Dematic, a global leader in supply chain automation, is set to exhibit the Dematic Multishuttle® FD System in Australia. The Multishuttle FD System is a high-density shuttle-based storage system designed to help businesses double storage capacity while reducing the risk of over-investing in warehouse automation.
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Internet censorship index reveals Russia’s lead and widespread content blocking
Global study shows targeted internet censorship worldwide, with Russia leading; VPNs, news, and adult content are most frequently blocked categories. The Global Internet Censorship Index 2026 offers a clear view of how governments around the world control online access. Researchers tested 74 popular websites across 53 countries using residential proxies to simulate real users. After…
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ReadySteadyPlug receives $1.51 million ARENA funding to accelerate national rollout of affordable EV chargers in apartments
– ARENA funding to accelerate the national rollout of smart strata-based EV charging infrastructure – ReadySteadyPlug’s smart Level 1 solution avoids costly switchboard or infrastructure upgrades with limited upfront contribution from the Owners Corporation – Funding comes amid surging EV demand driven by global fuel crisis