Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text […]
Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under
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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one
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What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Sinisa Markovic Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any investigation involve pulling together logs from several sources to decide whether something is worth
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S.
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Inside the Modern Warehouse: Securing the World’s New Front Door 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Through perimeter protection, layered safety measures and systemic security, security leaders can protect an essential element of the supply chain: warehouses. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. The crackdown was led
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Brush shell 0.4.0 tightens script safety, widens platform support 2026-05-04 at 09:16 By Sinisa Markovic Rust-based alternatives to traditional Unix shells continue to attract users who want bash compatibility alongside built-in features like syntax highlighting and history-based suggestions. Brush, a bash- and POSIX-compatible shell written in Rust, sits in that group, and version 0.4.0 brings
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Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout 2026-05-04 at 06:05 By Simon Sharwood Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns
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Microsoft’s turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better 2026-05-04 at 02:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak – what’s wrong at Redmond? kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …
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ChatGPT advanced account security adds passkeys and hardware keys 2026-05-04 at 02:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Journalists, elected officials, researchers, and political dissidents have spent years adapting their accounts to phishing-resistant authentication on consumer platforms. ChatGPT now joins that list. OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting that strips password-based sign-in from ChatGPT and
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Energy group asks Congress to investigate potentially foreign-backed campaigns against AI data centers 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Fox News Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at opposition to data centers springing up across the country. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post
Teen’s TikTok videos used to advertise ‘nasty’ hookup app, calling her ‘friend with benefit’: lawsuit 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Brandon Cruz Kaelyn Lunglhofer, a student at the University of Tennessee, is suing Quantum Communications and its dating app, “Meete,” after the British Virgin Islands-based company ran suggestive ads using stolen TikTok videos to boost its
US Military Reaches Deals With 7 Tech Companies to Use Their AI on Classified Systems 2026-05-03 at 21:21 By Associated Press Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide resources to help augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments,” the Defense Department said. The post US Military Reaches Deals With 7
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Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark 2026-05-03 at 16:18 By Tobias Mann In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups
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Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’ 2026-05-03 at 14:21 By Dan Robinson Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can
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Job’s a good ‘un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise 2026-05-03 at 12:54 By Lindsay Clark PAC: Now why can’t everybody else in public sector do it like this? Parliament’s spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from
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Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months 2026-05-03 at 12:54 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV 2026-05-03 at 10:18 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431
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‘Never f–king guess’: AI agent confesses why it went haywire and deleted company database 2026-05-03 at 00:53 By Ben Cost More like Clod AI. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source