2026

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination 2026-01-28 at 15:48 By SA Mathieson Chatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened West Midlands Police’s acting Chief Constable has suspended use of Microsoft Copilot following a controversy that led to the early retirement of his […]

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses 2026-01-28 at 15:31 By Connor Jones Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before the feature was made available earlier this month.…

Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation 2026-01-28 at 15:17 By Thomas Claburn If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points Opinion  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a novella-length essay about the risk of superintelligent AI, something that doesn’t yet exist.… This article is

Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing 2026-01-28 at 15:16 By SA Mathieson Home Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework Police in England and Wales will increase their use of live facial recognition (LFR) and artificial intelligence (AI) under

Two High-Severity n8n Flaws Allow Authenticated Remote Code Execution 2026-01-28 at 15:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including a crucial vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. The weaknesses, discovered by the JFrog Security Research team, are listed below – CVE-2026-1470 (CVSS score: 9.9)

From Triage to Threat Hunts: How AI Accelerates SecOps 2026-01-28 at 15:16 By If you work in security operations, the concept of the AI SOC agent is likely familiar. Early narratives promised total autonomy. Vendors seized on the idea of the “Autonomous SOC” and suggested a future where algorithms replaced analysts. That future has not

Mustang Panda Deploys Updated COOLCLIENT Backdoor in Government Cyber Attacks 2026-01-28 at 15:16 By Threat actors with ties to China have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor called COOLCLIENT in cyber espionage attacks in 2025 to facilitate comprehensive data theft from infected endpoints. The activity has been attributed to Mustang Panda (aka

WisdomTree brings its full tokenized fund lineup to Solana 2026-01-28 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young WisdomTree adds Solana to its tokenized fund lineup, citing transaction speed as it expands a regulated multi-chain strategy. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

For Wall Street’s most sophisticated trading firms, the next alpha is onchain 2026-01-28 at 15:03 By Cointelegraph by Annabelle Huang Physical co-location and nanosecond advantages end as alpha shifts onchain. High-frequency trading firms own blockchain infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Gold hits $5,300 as Tether stacks bullion and Coinbase pushes futures 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Tether increases physical gold holdings to 130 metric tons while Coinbase promotes futures trading as Bitcoin lags and gold tops $5,300 per ounce. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

South Korea regulator backs ownership caps for crypto exchanges 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra The Financial Services Commission chief says ownership limits are still under negotiation as lawmakers debate the Digital Asset Basic Act ahead of a mid-February deadline. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

ECB’s Cipollone says digital euro key to payments sovereignty in ‘weaponised’ world 2026-01-28 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben European Central Bank executive Piero Cipollone has argued that rising geopolitical tensions make a European-controlled payments system a strategic necessity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies 2026-01-28 at 14:25 By Abhishek Jadhav You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up Feature  Large language model inference is often stateless, with each query handled independently and no carryover from previous interactions. A request arrives, the model generates

Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London ‘wobble’ last week 2026-01-28 at 13:49 By Richard Speed But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger’s cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.… This article is an

Bitcoin eyes $90K ahead of FOMC: Watch these BTC price levels next 2026-01-28 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Bitcoin price traded below $90,000 as investors braced for Jerome Powell’s post-FOMC speech that could trigger volatile swings toward key BTC price levels. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Password Reuse in Disguise: An Often-Missed Risky Workaround 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By When security teams discuss credential-related risk, the focus typically falls on threats such as phishing, malware, or ransomware. These attack methods continue to evolve and rightly command attention. However, one of the most persistent and underestimated risks to organizational security remains far more

Google Warns of Active Exploitation of WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By Google on Tuesday revealed that multiple threat actors, including nation-state adversaries and financially motivated groups, are exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in RARLAB WinRAR to establish initial access and deploy a diverse array of payloads. “Discovered and patched in July 2025,