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ChatGPT’s viral caricature trend proves how well it knows you — and it’s freaking people out

ChatGPT’s viral caricature trend proves how well it knows you — and it’s freaking people out 2026-02-09 at 19:42 By News.com.au While similar images can be made in apps like Cartoonify, ChatGPT offers the twist of proving how well it “knows” you based on what you’ve previously asked or searched on the platform. This article […]

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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler 2026-02-09 at 19:42 By Joe Fay AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project’s creator An Anthropic researcher’s efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him “excited,” “concerned,” and “uneasy.”… This article

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More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster 2026-02-09 at 19:42 By Brandon Vigliarolo By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it It’s a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.… This article is

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Lema AI Emerges From Stealth With $24 Million to Tackle Third-Party Risk 

Lema AI Emerges From Stealth With $24 Million to Tackle Third-Party Risk  2026-02-09 at 19:42 By Eduard Kovacs The funding was raised over Series A and seed funding rounds for its supply chain security solution. The post Lema AI Emerges From Stealth With $24 Million to Tackle Third-Party Risk  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters 2026-02-09 at 18:45 By Lindsay Clark Co-founder Aneel Bhusri returns to top job after turbulent year Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…

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EU targets Meta over WhatsApp AI access restrictions

EU targets Meta over WhatsApp AI access restrictions 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Sinisa Markovic The European Commission believes Meta breached EU competition rules by blocking other AI assistants from accessing and interacting with users on WhatsApp. The case centers on a change Meta announced on 15 October 2025 to the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms. The

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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 34 Deals Announced in January 2026

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 34 Deals Announced in January 2026 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Eduard Kovacs Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by CrowdStrike, Infoblox, JumpCloud, LevelBlue, OneSpan, and Radware. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 34 Deals Announced in January 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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SmarterTools Hit by Ransomware via Vulnerability in Its Own Product

SmarterTools Hit by Ransomware via Vulnerability in Its Own Product 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Ionut Arghire SmarterTools says customers were impacted after hackers compromised a data center used for quality control testing. The post SmarterTools Hit by Ransomware via Vulnerability in Its Own Product appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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Recent SolarWinds Flaws Potentially Exploited as Zero-Days

Recent SolarWinds Flaws Potentially Exploited as Zero-Days 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Ionut Arghire Vulnerable SolarWinds Web Help Desk instances were exploited in December 2025 for initial access. The post Recent SolarWinds Flaws Potentially Exploited as Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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How Top CISOs Solve Burnout and Speed up MTTR without Extra Hiring

How Top CISOs Solve Burnout and Speed up MTTR without Extra Hiring 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Why do SOC teams keep burning out and missing SLAs even after spending big on security tools? Routine triage piles up, senior specialists get dragged into basic validation, and MTTR climbs, while stealthy threats still find room to slip

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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Cyber threats are no longer coming from just malware or exploits. They’re showing up inside the tools, platforms, and ecosystems organizations use every day. As companies connect AI, cloud apps, developer tools, and communication systems, attackers are

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Ransomware group breached SmarterTools via flaw in its SmarterMail deployment

Ransomware group breached SmarterTools via flaw in its SmarterMail deployment 2026-02-09 at 17:18 By Zeljka Zorz SmarterTools, the company behind the popular Microsoft Exchange alternative SmarterMail, has been breached by a ransomware-wielding group that leveraged a recently fixed vulnerability in that solution. How did the SmarterTools breach happen? Derek Curtis, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer,

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Is Solana headed to $50? These three charts show a textbook bear pattern

Is Solana headed to $50? These three charts show a textbook bear pattern 2026-02-09 at 17:14 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale SOL’s price has validated a classic head-and-shoulders pattern on multiple time frames, with a price target of around $50. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks 2026-02-09 at 16:50 By Connor Jones Staff data belonging to the regulator and judiciary’s governing body accessed The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…

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Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates 2026-02-09 at 16:45 By Richard Speed West US datacenter incident disrupted Microsoft Store and system patching for several hours Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.… This

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SolarWinds Web Help Desk Exploited for RCE in Multi-Stage Attacks on Exposed Servers

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Exploited for RCE in Multi-Stage Attacks on Exposed Servers 2026-02-09 at 16:42 By Microsoft has revealed that it observed a multi‑stage intrusion that involved the threat actors exploiting internet‑exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances to obtain initial access and move laterally across the organization’s network to other high-value assets. That

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Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Data Theft Tactics Falter

Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Data Theft Tactics Falter 2026-02-09 at 16:38 By Ionut Arghire As only data exfiltration for extortion no longer delivers ROI, ransomware gangs may increasingly encrypting data for additional leverage. The post Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Data Theft Tactics Falter appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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