A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting $600. Meanwhile, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code via a basic packaging mistake. Oh, and by the way,…
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Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps
Hackers breached Venice ’s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential…
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Do Back-to-Back Courtroom Losses Herald Meta’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment?
Social-media giants are confronting an existential dilemma as a flood of litigation challenges their product designs.
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Cisco’s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath
Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor’s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of the nine vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its firewalls and SD-WAN systems over the past three weeks have already been exploited in the wild. Attackers exploited a pair of these defects…
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Google Tracks Flash Floods With a New AI Tool
The new flood tracker is the latest big tech investment in artificial-intelligence weather monitoring, aimed at predicting volatile rainfall.