Nvidia’s RTX Spark could give PC makers a new high-end category, built around machines that run more demanding AI workloads locally rather than in the cloud. The chipmaker and Microsoft said RTX Spark Windows PCs will be built for personal AI agents and heavier local AI workloads, from AI development to engineering and content creation.…
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Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations in more than 15 countries
Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative built around the Claude Mythos Preview model, by adding about 150 organizations following several weeks of work with its initial group of partners, security firms, open-source maintainers, and government agencies. Organizations joining the program must meet security requirements before gaining access, Anthropic noted. The expansion brings the…
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America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule
Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck.
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Kyvos Exec: Semantic Layers are Critical for Enterprise AI
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployments, questions around data consistency, governance, and scalability are becoming increasingly important. Many organizations have invested heavily in modern data platforms, yet AI systems still struggle to deliver reliable outcomes when business context is fragmented across tools and datasets. Pratik Jain, Senior Director of Technology at Kyvos…
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Microsoft unveils Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
Microsoft has developed a new AI agent that can run autonomously around the clock to complete tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. Microsoft Scout, unveiled at the company’s Build event Tuesday, is a new type of always-on agent based on the OpenClaw agent framework that Microsoft calls “autopilots.” These act on a user’s behalf with their…
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CVE-2026-48095: 7-Zip Heap Buffer Overflow Can Lead to Code Execution
CVE-2026-48095 in 7-Zip has raised fresh concerns around malicious archive handling and user-driven exploitation. According to GitHub Security Lab, the flaw is a heap buffer write overflow in 7-Zip’s NTFS archive handler that affects version 26.00 and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or application crashes. The issue was fixed in 7-Zip 26.01, released…
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Italy disrupts CINEMAGOAL piracy app that stole streaming auth codes
Italian authorities have dismantled a piracy ecosystem centered around the CINEMAGOAL app that provided access to various streaming platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify. […]
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Google talks ‘singularity’ while scaling up agentic AI for enterprises
Google is recasting its enterprise AI roadmap around autonomous systems and AGI, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis telling I/O attendees the industry now sits at the “foothills of the singularity.” “When we look back at this time, I think we all realise that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity,” Hassabis said in his…
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AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands
AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple providers, platforms, and computing environments while managing governance, security, and compliance obligations within defined boundaries. NTT DATA’s 2026 Global AI Report A Playbook for Private and Sovereign AI examined these conditions in more…
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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see
Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious tokens, filter unusual characters, watch for prompt injection patterns. New research from Microsoft and the Institute of Science Tokyo demonstrates that this defensive posture has a blind spot, and…
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Deepfake detection is losing ground to generative models
Deepfake detection has been built around a single question for close to a decade. Given a video or audio clip, is it real or synthetic? Commercial detectors analyze pixels, frequencies, and biometric signals to answer that question, and the best of them post strong accuracy numbers on standard benchmarks. In deployment, performance drops sharply on…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Takes Stand in Elon Musk Megatrial
The trial centers around Musk’s donations to the AI lab when it was a non-profit and its conversion to a for-profit company.
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Eyes wide open: How to mitigate the security and privacy risks of smart glasses
Smart glasses allow anyone to track and record the world around them. That could put your data and the privacy of those nearby at risk.
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Mythos AI: What Security Leaders Should Do Next
The recent discussion around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing has caught the attention of the cybersecurity industry for good reason. Mythos is not just another AI announcement. It is being positioned as a frontier model with advanced cybersecurity capability, particularly around finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has stated that Project Glasswing is…
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Yet Another Way to Bypass Google Chrome’s Encryption Protection
Authors of the VoidStealer Trojan uncovered a way to get around Google’s App-Bound Encryption (ABE), opening the door to infostealers.
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Apple Intelligence hype cost the company $250M
The mishaps around Apple Intelligence have gone beyond denting Apple’s reputation – they have also cost the company $250 million in damages over smarter Siri delays. Think back to the original introduction of Apple Intelligence and you might recall a promotional video that explained how a new and smarter Siri would act as your contextually-smart…
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Give yourself an on-demand Android taskbar
Holy moly, I am flying around my phone this week. It’s a wild feeling — especially since Google’s grand I/O gala, which is traditionally the time when shapeshifting new Android additions are supposed to command our attention, isn’t for another couple weeks yet. These days, though, we’ve reached a point where many of the most…
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Multiple threat actors actively exploit cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940)
The situation around the critical cPanel authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) has deteriorated significantly since our initial coverage. Exploratory probing has evolved into multi-actor exploitation, leading to disrupted websites, ransomware and malware deployment, and targeted attacks. “Sorry” ransomware Attackers have taken advantage of CVE-2026-41940 to mass-exploit vulnerable internet-facing cPanel instances to breach servers, deface websites and…
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Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance
As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today, we’re introducing the Wallarm Middle East…
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25 great uses for an old Android device
Got extra smartphones sitting around your office? How about tablets? As we move multiple generations into mobile technology, more and more of us are building up collections of old, dated devices from both our work and our personal lives. And more often than not, those devices do little more than take up space and gather…
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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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Microsoft Urges Partners to Operationalize Copilot, Agents
Microsoft’s tone around AI is starting to change. The emphasis now is on getting systems into production and keeping them running in a way businesses can manage. Microsoft pushes partners and customers toward the next frontier This sentiment is expanded upon in a recent blog from chief partner officer Nicole Dezen, who frames Microsoft’s next…
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Workforce
The company is also changing how it awards bonuses and stock options as it reorganizes workforce around AI efforts.
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Oracle Builds for AI While Channel Rivals Chase Share
Oracle is reshaping its enterprise strategy around AI, multicloud infrastructure, and deeper ties with hyperscale partners such as AWS. But as the company pours billions into data centers, pushes agentic AI across its portfolio, and cuts jobs to support that transition, rivals see an opening to compete more aggressively for Oracle-adjacent workloads. That opportunity is…
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NCSC Unveils SilentGlass, a Plug-In Device to Protect Monitors from Cyber-Attacks
The UK’s cybersecurity agency said the devices will be available for purchase by organizations around the world
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Top techniques attackers use to infiltrate your systems today
Much of the talk around cybersecurity these days revolves around AI and the threat it poses to corporate systems when used by nefarious actors. But the reality on the ground remains a little more mundane than polymorphic AI malware and criminal masterminds putting machine learning and generative AI to work at scale. Still, keeping on…
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Handling the CVE Flood With EPSS, (Mon, Apr 20th)
Every morning, security people around the world face the same ritual: opening their vulnerability feed to find a lot of new CVE entries that appeared overnight. Over the past decade, this flood has become a defining challenge of modern defensive security. Some numbers[1]: CVEs published in 2023: 29K+ CVEs published in 2024: 40K+ New CVEs…
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How to think about Apple Business
Apple Business is aimed at small businesses coalesced around Macs, iPhones, and iPads. If that’s you, and all your systems are made by Apple, the service is likely to be all you need to run a small operation of up to a few dozen seats. But Apple Business isn’t really designed to handle the advanced needs of larger…
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Google wipes out 602 million scam ads with Gemini on duty
Google claims that its security teams work around the clock using its Gemini AI models to detect and stop harmful ads. “Bad actors are using generative AI to create deceptive ads at scale, and Gemini helps us detect and block them in real time” Keerat Sharma, VP and GM, Ads Privacy and Safety, Google, said.…
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IBM’s government DEI settlement could increase pressure to avoid tech hiring diversity
IBM has agreed to settle a complaint from the US Justice Department around its initiatives to diversify its workforce and to encourage hiring of underrepresented groups, contrary to a presidential directive. The federal contractor also agreed to pay the government roughly $17 million. The pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate workforce diversification efforts, typically…
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Microsoft ends desktop detour for sensitivity labels in Office web apps
Microsoft is rolling out an update to Office for the web that removes a long-standing limitation around document protection, adding new control to browser-based apps. Specifying users in the Permissions dialog (Source: Microsoft) Users can now apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions directly in the web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The change brings…
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Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta changed its speech rules to add new restrictions around posts including the word “antifa,” according to documents reviewed by The Intercept. This spring, Meta quietly revised its Community Standards policy, an internal company document dictating what its billions of global users can and cannot say online. The latest tweaks…
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Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there’s a wide-open window nobody’s guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the most dangerous AI threat surface in your network that isn’t on anyone’s
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Product showcase: Session, a messenger without phone numbers or metadata
Instant messaging has been around for decades, but it became widely adopted with the emergence of smartphones. Earlier, communication was limited to basic text messages. Messaging expanded to include photos, videos, and video calls without relying on telecom networks, as long as there is a reliable data connection. Privacy and metadata concerns With the growth…
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iTWire TV: TrendAI’s ANZ Field CISO on why Australian enterprises can’t wait to be “100% ready” for AI
GUEST INTERVIEW: Trend Micro has been around for nearly four decades. Now it’s got a new enterprise identity, TrendAI, and a new mandate: help organisations adopt AI without blowing themselves up in the process.
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: TrendAI’s ANZ Field CISO on why Australian enterprises can’t wait to be “100% ready” for AI
GUEST INTERVIEW: Trend Micro has been around for nearly 4 decades. Now it’s got a new enterprise identity, TrendAI, and a new mandate: help organisations adopt AI without blowing themselves up in the process.
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Data Optimization in Security: A Splunk Architect’s Perspective
Learn how to design security data optimization around detection engineering, Splunk architecture, and faster incident response outcomes.
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The tabletop exercise grows up
In the early 1800s, Prussian officers began rehearsing battles around sand tables. They called it Kriegsspiel, and it worked because it forced them to make high-stakes decisions under pressure. Fast forward to today, and that same concept has become cybersecurity’s go-to tool for crisis preparedness: the tabletop exercise. For good reason: it still works. Full…
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The tabletop exercise grows up
In the early 1800s, Prussian officers began rehearsing battles around sand tables. They called it Kriegsspiel, and it worked because it forced them to make high-stakes decisions under pressure. Fast forward to today, and that same concept has become cybersecurity’s go-to tool for crisis preparedness: the tabletop exercise. For good reason: it still works. Full…
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March 2026 Leadership Moves: Google Cloud Partner Chief Departs & More
As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, organizations around the channel have made significant moves to their leadership teams. Key figures have been appointed, promoted, or departed from their positions to make way for new faces. Take a look around at some of the signature moves that enterprises have made as they…
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CCTV Crackdown: India Moves to Block Chinese Surveillance Cameras
India is preparing for a major shift in its surveillance ecosystem as the government tightens rules around internet-connected CCTV cameras. The move is primarily aimed at addressing rising concerns over national security and data privacy risks linked to foreign-made devices. Authorities have found that several widely used CCTV systems may not be as secure as…
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AI Agents Are Democratizing Finance but Also Redefining Risk
AI agents are transforming finance, enabling automated trading and payments, but introduce new risks around keys, data inputs and secure execution control.
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3 SOC Process Fixes That Unlock Tier 1 Productivity
What is really slowing Tier 1 down: the threat itself or the process around it? In many SOCs, the biggest delays do not come from the threat alone. They come from fragmented workflows, manual triage steps, and limited visibility early in the investigation. Fixing those process gaps can help Tier 1 move faster, reduce unnecessary…
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Why the real bottleneck in enterprise AI isn’t GPUs – it’s data
For the past two years, the conversation around enterprise AI has been dominated by GPUs: who has them; who can buy them; who is waiting months for them. But a new wave of announcements at NVIDIA’s recent annual AI conference suggests something more subtle is happening inside enterprise data centres. While the GPU shortage grabbed…
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Researchers release tool to detect stealthy BPFDoor implants in critical infrastructure networks
Telecommunications providers around the world have been dealing with the burrowing efforts of the China-linked Salt Typhoon APT for many years now. To help them identify hard-to-detect implants used by the group, researchers have released a scanning script. Salt Typhoon goes deep Salt Typhoon has hit US, Canadian, European and Asian telcos. “By compromising telecom…
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How AI Coding Tools Crushed the Endpoint Security Fortress
Security vendors have spent years building up defenses around the endpoint, but one researcher says AI coding tools have brought the walls down.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8
Available online around the world, the conference will showcase the latest Apple software and technologies
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Most Cybersecurity Staff Don’t Know How Fast They Could Stop a Cyber-Attack on AI Systems
ISACA survey found that confusion over responsibility and lack of understanding around AI cyber-attacks makes containing them difficult
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Delinea finds 90% of Australian Organisations Pressure Security Teams to Loosen Identity Controls for AI
GUEST RESEARCH: New research highlights visibility gaps around AI-driven identities, rising NHI risks, and an AI security confidence paradox
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Copilot and Claude Signal a New AI Services Market
In 2026, the conversation around AI coworkers has become a key talking point in the enterprise industry. Anthropic introduced its Claude Cowork program earlier this year, a solution that transcends traditional AI chatbots and appears capable of doing real, task-driven work on its own. Not long after, Microsoft announced its own take on an agentic…
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Cybersecurity and privacy priorities for 2026: The legal risk map
Escalating cybersecurity threats and growing privacy concerns lurk around every corner these days. Evolving technology and mounting regulations continue to present both the perils and solutions. All players — public and private, organizations and individuals alike — are to conquer the next quest in this realm. In the most recent Annual Litigation Trends Survey by…
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Fake PoCs, Misunderstood Risks Cause Cisco SD-WAN Chaos
The excitement around Cisco’s latest SD-WAN bugs has inspired some light fraud, misunderstandings, and overlooked risks.
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Your Signal account is safe – unless you fall for this trick
Signal, the encrypted messaging app trusted by security-savvy users around the world, has confirmed that hackers have managed to takeover accounts – with government officials and journalists among those being targeted. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Atlassian cuts 1,600 jobs to fund AI and enterprise expansion
Atlassian will reduce its global workforce by approximately 10%, eliminating around 1,600 roles, as the collaboration software maker redirects capital toward artificial intelligence development and enterprise sales. Co-CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes disclosed the cuts in a blog post. The decision, he said, was made to “self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales” while…
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AI oversight is creating mental fatigue at work
Workflows built around multiple AI agents and constant tool switching are adding cognitive strain across large enterprises. A recent Harvard Business Review analysis describes this pattern as “AI brain fry,” a form of mental fatigue tied to intensive use and oversight of AI systems. Employees increasingly manage clusters of agents that generate code, synthesize information,…
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How the OpenAI-Anthropic Feud Could Warp the Future of AI
The fractured relationship between Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will color the debate around how artificial intelligence should develop.
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What’s Really at Stake in the Fight Between Anthropic and the Pentagon
The feud goes beyond AI guardrails and revolves around the dream of the nascent technology’s future.
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Australia’s WiseTech to cut 2,000 jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete
Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to eliminate around 2,000 jobs as it embeds artificial intelligence across its engineering and customer service operations, the company said Wednesday. The cuts, which will begin in the second half of FY26 and extend into FY27, will “reduce teams – initially product & development and customer service across…
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Weekly Update 492
The recurring theme this week seems to be around the gap between breaches happening and individual victims finding out about them. It’s tempting to blame this on the corporate victim of the breach (the hacked company), but they’re simultaneously dealing with a criminal intrusion, a ransom demand, and class-action lawyers knocking down their doors. They’re…
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Microsoft to roll out a ‘consent first’ model to protect Windows
Windows serves as the backbone of enterprises around the world, powering more than a billion devices and supporting millions of apps. However Microsoft acknowledges that apps are increasingly going rogue, overriding settings, installing additional components, or altering critical Windows capabilities without user awareness or approval. In response, the tech giant plans to roll out what…
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Apple Sends Alert – iPhones are at Risk
Around 1.6 billion people around the world have iPhones, and while Apple is usually diligent regarding security, there are two major problems that have surfaced. These problems leave iPhone users completely vulnerable to cyber criminal attacks and if users don’t address, they can steal all of your personal data and even your financial information. The…
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February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The January releases addressed 92 vulnerabilities in Windows 11 and Server2025, as well as 79 vulnerabilities for Windows 10 and its associated servers. We also saw…
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What AWS Security learned from responding to recent npm supply chain threat campaigns
AWS incident response operates around the clock to protect our customers, the AWS Cloud, and the AWS global infrastructure. Through that work, we learn from a variety of issues and spot unique trends. Over the past few months, high-profile software supply chain threat campaigns involving third party software repositories have highlighted the importance of protecting…