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Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought 2026-03-09 at 04:07 By Brandon Vigliarolo Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead Kettle  Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded […]

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools 2026-03-09 at 01:54 By Jessica Lyons and Connor Jones PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more Infosec In Brief  The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to […]

Inside Elon Musk’s vision of the future, where robots do everything and humans don’t work: Utopia or ‘dystopian hellhole’? 2026-03-08 at 14:34 By Michael Kaplan The Tesla titan and other techies are bullish on ‘amazing abundance.’ This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work 2026-03-08 at 14:34 By Jessica Lyons Crims ‘will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,’ Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg interview  AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the “janitorial-type work” needed to plan and carry out […]

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom 2026-03-08 at 11:32 By Carly Page What hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet’s most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues 2026-03-07 at 20:31 By OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu […]

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model 2026-03-07 at 15:18 By Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has […]

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics 2026-03-07 at 14:29 By Tobias Mann Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits feature  By now you’ve probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It’s an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services 2026-03-07 at 13:26 By SA Mathieson ‘There’s a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall’ Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.… This article is an […]

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet 2026-03-07 at 11:34 By Richard Speed Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union’s Venera 3.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Oracle and OpenAI’s Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids 2026-03-07 at 03:01 By Tobias Mann Meta supposidly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman’s apparent fear of […]

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits 2026-03-07 at 02:37 By Thomas Claburn Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components Thanks to Anthropic’s AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the problem, Claude […]

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact 2026-03-07 at 02:07 By Thomas Claburn It’s the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine Anthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory report that AI is not eliminating as many jobs as experts have predicted. … This article is an excerpt […]

Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say 2026-03-07 at 01:24 By O’Ryan Johnson US unemployment ticked up to 4.4% The US economy shed 92,000 jobs in February, a dramatic downturn from analyst expectations that it would add about 50,000 jobs. The shortfall stoked growing fears that AI could be contributing to higher […]

Can the Industry Do More for Women in Security? 2026-03-06 at 22:31 By While women in security have seen forward progress, the path hasn’t always been linear.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones 2026-03-06 at 21:00 By Jessica Lyons Steals SMS messages, location data, contacts … and delivers it to Hamas-linked crew Hamas-linked attackers are dropping spyware disguised as an emergency-alert app on Israelis’ smartphones via SMS messages, according to security researchers.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

US state laws push age checks into the operating system 2026-03-06 at 17:19 By Liam Proven Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS Many web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content. But now some US states want […]

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack 2026-03-06 at 17:19 By Carly Page Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation Just when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreants are exploiting more vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN management software.… This article […]

Transparent Tribe Uses AI to Mass-Produce Malware Implants in Campaign Targeting India 2026-03-06 at 17:18 By The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools to strike targets with various implants. The activity is designed to produce a “high-volume, mediocre mass of implants” […]

Multi-Stage VOID#GEIST Malware Delivering XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT 2026-03-06 at 17:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-stage malware campaign that uses batch scripts as a pathway to deliver various encrypted remote access trojan (RATs) payloads that correspond to XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT. The stealthy attack chain has been codenamed VOID#GEIST […]