A two-week penetration test can leave roughly 345 days of real-world exposure unvalidated. Sprocket Security explores why continuous testing is becoming critical as attack surfaces constantly change. […]
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Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees as It Transforms Around AI
The cuts of roughly 8,000 jobs, or 10% of staff, are meant to offset the cost of the company’s AI investments
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Why some security fixes never reach your vulnerability dashboard
On April 22, for roughly 90 minutes, a malicious version of Bitwarden CLI appeared on npm. Version 2026.4.0 contained a credential-stealing payload that executed an obfuscated loader and harvested AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, and npm tokens from any developer machine that ran npm install. The attackers reached Bitwarden’s npm publishing path through a compromised GitHub…
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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension. […]
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Debian 13.5 point release lands with security fixes, bug patches
Debian 13.5 is the fifth point release for the stable distribution “trixie.” The update folds in roughly 100 Debian Security Advisories and corrections for more than 130 source packages, covering everything from the Linux kernel and Apache HTTP Server to OpenSSH, sudo, systemd, OpenSSL, glibc, and FreeRDP. Fresh installer images carrying the same fixes will…
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7 Candy AI Alternatives Compared: Better Chatbot Companions and Pricing
Candy AI rocketed to roughly 35 million monthly visits in 2025, proving there’s real appetite for an anything-goes AI girlfriend experience. Yet many users feel the sugar-high crash: conversations flatten after a dozen lines, memory resets around the 15-message mark, and add-on charges for photos or voice push real costs far beyond the $13.99 base…
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Microsoft to offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of the US workforce
Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or roughly 8,750 employees, in the first such program in the company’s 51-year history, as the technology industry restructures under the cost pressure of AI investment. The program, available to US-based employees at the senior director level and below, comes as large…
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Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit
Bluesky is back online after a roughly 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported.
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Workplace stress in 2026 is still worse than before the pandemic
Roughly 40% of employees worldwide said they experienced a lot of stress during the previous day, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, a figure that has remained above pre-pandemic levels for several years. Daily anger stood at 22% globally, sadness at 23%, and loneliness at 22%. Together, these numbers point to…
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iTWire TV: HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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HPE’s April Neoh on AI Bias, Trust, and Why the Scales Still Aren’t Balanced
GUEST INTERVIEW: April has spent roughly 20 years in tech. She’s watched the suits get replaced by suits wearing sneakers. She’s seen decisions go from months-long deliberation cycles to minimum viable products shipped at pace. And now, as Account Executive for High Performance Computing and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she’s watching AI reshape the…
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Nearly 38 Million Impacted in ManoMano Third-Party Breach
European online DIY giant ManoMano is notifying roughly 38 million customers after threat actors compromised a third-party customer service provider, exposing personal data tied to user accounts and support interactions. The incident, discovered in January 2026, underscores the persistent risk posed by supply chain and vendor-based breaches. “We can confirm that ManoMano has recently notified…
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Out of the Shadows: How to Safely Migrate Data for AI Deployments
Roughly two decades ago, organizational leaders began asking many questions about a watershed technology migration in the making: Should we move our data to the cloud? How much should we commit to the cloud? Could our employees use the cloud without IT’s approval? From Cloud Migration to AI Migration Today, another massive migration is underway,…
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Bill Ackman Makes a Big Bet on Meta
Pershing Square has disclosed a roughly $2 billion position in Facebook’s parent.