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Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed

Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed 2026-07-23 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A share work in a different way, arriving as a run of two […]

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Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents 2026-07-22 at 09:00 By Sinisa Markovic The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to read it. On GitHub that somebody is usually […]

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Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop

Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop 2026-07-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations run this way, on solid-state drives built to the TCG […]

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A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants

A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants 2026-07-20 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick glance. Those tools learn from large collections of code, and […]

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The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work

The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work 2026-07-17 at 10:31 By Sinisa Markovic The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. The voice belongs to a senior manager, or sounds close enough, and she needs a password reset before a flight. She is polite, she is in a hurry, […]

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Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era

Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era 2026-07-17 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous web agents read whatever a page displays, and much of that content comes from strangers. Product reviews, seller listings, and advertisements sit beside trusted site menus on a single page. An agent that reads all of that […]

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What public money does to open-source projects

What public money does to open-source projects 2026-07-16 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine learning stacks getting so much attention right now. Roughly 96 percent of codebases carry […]

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An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute

An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute 2026-07-15 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text together, so any words that fall […]

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“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found

“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found 2026-07-14 at 15:27 By Zeljka Zorz A new approach tried out by Tracebit researchers has proven very effective at stopping AI agents from fully compromising targeted environments. What makes it notable isn’t the technique – prompt injection is old news – but the direction it’s pointed: not […]

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No one knows how many old shims can still bypass UEFI Secure Boot

No one knows how many old shims can still bypass UEFI Secure Boot 2026-07-14 at 13:26 By Mirko Zorz The vast majority of UEFI computers carry a Microsoft certificate that will trust a small first-stage loader called a shim, a program Microsoft signs so that Linux and assorted boot tools can run with Secure Boot […]

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New tutorials on underground hacking forums have roughly doubled

New tutorials on underground hacking forums have roughly doubled 2026-07-14 at 09:30 By Sinisa Markovic Underground hacking forums are producing more original tutorials again, with growing attention on financial fraud, particularly the theft and fraudulent use of payment card data, known as carding, and cash-out techniques. New tutorials per month versus reposts (Source: Radware) Fraud […]

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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research

Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research 2026-07-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house and watching for months, which is slow, costly, […]

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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors 2026-07-13 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly. […]

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The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer

The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer 2026-07-10 at 10:00 By Sinisa Markovic Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful […]

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Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request

Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request 2026-07-10 at 09:30 By Sinisa Markovic Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government agencies. California gives residents a way to push back. You can ask […]

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Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code 2026-07-09 at 13:44 By Mirko Zorz Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own output across many turns. The safety testing that vets these […]

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Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them

Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them 2026-07-09 at 10:24 By Sinisa Markovic Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. Each one is a little bundle of plain-English […]

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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents

macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents 2026-07-08 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, digs up a release year, then quietly files a reminder, the […]

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Bitcoin Covenants Part 3: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT

Bitcoin Covenants Part 3: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT 2026-07-07 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Kyrian Alex APO lets a Bitcoin signature authorize any compatible UTXO rather than one fixed outpoint. It allows for rebindable pre-signed transactions for Lightning, vaults, and layer-2 protocols without new key management overhead. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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How Onchain Capital Can Reach Europe’s Underserved SMEs

How Onchain Capital Can Reach Europe’s Underserved SMEs 2026-07-07 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Kyrian Alex Novel models for RWA tokenization could allow SMEs to receive credit using tangible assets as collateral. A new Cointelegraph Research report presents a case study. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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