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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made $18M last year: IPO filing 2026-10-06 at 18:17 By Reuters Dario Amodei’s pay last year puts him above CEOs at Alphabet and Amazon, but behind those at Oracle and Nvidia. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Psychic AI can read minds — and recreate our thoughts with frightening accuracy: ‘Sci-fi can come true’ 2026-10-06 at 18:03 By Ben Cost Is it total recall? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

US-Bound Oil Supertanker Breached by Hackers 2026-10-06 at 18:00 By While approaching the coast of Texas, an oil supertanker was hacked. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Frontline Education Data Breach Highlights Third-Party Risks 2026-10-06 at 17:20 By An education technology company was breached.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings 2026-10-06 at 14:57 By A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker’s code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a…

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies 2026-10-06 at 14:26 By The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages. “The unauthorized bot…

Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers 2026-10-06 at 14:02 By In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into…

Inside the high-stakes AI race: Death spreadsheets, burning demons and no need to save for retirement 2026-10-06 at 13:00 By Eric Spitznagel Kevin Roose’s revealing new book, “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence,” reveals the unhinged behind-the-scenes at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. This article is an…

DLP Inspection Where Your Agents Run: Extending Symantec DLP to Tetrate Agent Router 2026-10-06 at 13:00 By Milind Torney Broadcom and Tetrate are bringing enterprise DLP inline at Agent Router—same policies, same console, new channel This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports 2026-10-06 at 12:21 By Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as…

Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products 2026-10-06 at 09:58 By A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product’s web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file’s exact…

FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach 2026-10-06 at 09:56 By The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That’s according to a report from Reuters, citing…

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account 2026-10-06 at 09:00 By Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark’s national population register, the country’s digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish…

ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits 2026-10-06 at 08:22 By A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser’s cache. “Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the…

McDonald’s hit with lawsuit alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing 2026-10-06 at 01:59 By Reuters Reuters reported that McDonald’s pricing engine uses machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across its nearly 14,000 restaurants. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Senior Dem lawmaker Jim Clyburn admits he’s clueless about AI: ‘I didn’t know what that was until about a week ago’ 2026-10-06 at 01:24 By Ariel Zilber A shocking clip of a senior Democratic lawmaker admitting he’s clueless about AI – declaring, “I didn’t know what that was till about a week ago” – is…

Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users’ Mailboxes 2026-10-05 at 19:21 By Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “Weak authorization…

Why Location Intelligence is Becoming Critical for Emergency Response and Security Operations 2026-10-05 at 19:00 By When an alarm triggers and the operator can see the event pinned to a specific room on a live 3D indoor map, the response changes fundamentally.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View…