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LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor 2026-10-21 at 21:01 By The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind. The compromise affects LiteLLM 1.107.0, distributed through […]

Meta ordered to pay $25B to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica scandal over user data in 2016 election 2026-10-21 at 20:53 By Reuters The state’s attorney general had sued Meta in 2021 following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, had harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through […]

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joined on stage by robot ducks as he hails Europe’s AI potential 2026-10-21 at 20:52 By Reuters “Every company in Europe will become an AI company,” Huang said at Nvidia’s GTC conference in Berlin, which caps a European tour that has already taken him through London, Paris, Stockholm and Dublin. This article […]

Speculation — and anxiety — growing that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will issue new stock to pay for lavish AI spending 2026-10-21 at 19:48 By Charles Gasparino Zuck may want to time the sale not only with the recent upswing in Meta stock but also euphoria that is likely to surround the upcoming Anthropic IPO. This […]

OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So 2026-10-21 at 19:33 By OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks. The AI company said the incident took place on October […]

EBay to ax 9% of workforce — 1,000 jobs — in second round of cuts this year 2026-10-21 at 19:07 By Reuters The online marketplace looks to simplify operations and shift resources to its fastest-growing areas, CEO Jamie Iannone told staff. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View […]

PHP Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical PHP2Shell RCE Flaws as Exploit Attempts Emerge 2026-10-21 at 19:04 By PHP has released emergency updates that fix two critical flaws in the language itself, letting an attacker without an account run code on a web server. The fixes are in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and […]

Generative AI Is Erasing Behavioral Tells, Weakening Behavior-Only Detection, Proofpoint Reports 2026-10-21 at 17:12 By Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral signals email filters have […]

Meta’s Muse AI leaves users vulnerable to identity theft through simple security flaw — with over 6,800 links exposed: report 2026-10-21 at 17:08 By Ben Cost Leaked links included loan applications with the requested amount, bank transaction details, a real estate investor’s internal performance report and a corporate revenue doc intended for the CEO. This […]