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California tech giant plots massive layoffs as industry sheds 14,000 jobs

California tech giant plots massive layoffs as industry sheds 14,000 jobs 2026-10-14 at 20:41 By Titus Wu Airtable is the latest Bay Area tech firm to lay off a ‘large’ number of employees as the key industry notches more than 14,000 job losses this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

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U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud

U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud 2026-10-14 at 20:00 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea’s fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a […]

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CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts

CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts 2026-10-14 at 15:30 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. […]

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curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution

curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution 2026-10-14 at 15:13 By A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client’s memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on […]

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How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team

How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team 2026-10-14 at 14:50 By Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes […]

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Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days

Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days 2026-10-14 at 14:19 By A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its […]

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Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks

Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks 2026-10-14 at 14:08 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation […]

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An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part. 2026-10-14 at 14:00 By The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a […]

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AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host 2026-10-14 at 12:59 By A flaw in Linux’s vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an […]

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Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave

Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave 2026-10-14 at 11:31 By Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an isolated […]

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OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room

OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room 2026-10-14 at 09:20 By A Saudi National and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, has been charged […]

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Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug

Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug 2026-10-14 at 07:34 By Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 36 […]

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AI pioneer blasts extinction fears, accuses tech firms of using ‘made-up safety arguments’ to ‘stifle competition’

AI pioneer blasts extinction fears, accuses tech firms of using ‘made-up safety arguments’ to ‘stifle competition’ 2026-10-14 at 00:30 By Ariel Zilber Google Mind co-founder Andrew Ng is dismissing fears that AI could wipe out humanity. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Saudi OpenAI engineer bugged top secret meetings with toilet paper trickery, feds say after bombshell arrest

Saudi OpenAI engineer bugged top secret meetings with toilet paper trickery, feds say after bombshell arrest 2026-10-13 at 23:46 By Titus Wu Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Friday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to testify at NYC Council hearing on AI safety after getting subpoena

Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to testify at NYC Council hearing on AI safety after getting subpoena 2026-10-13 at 22:27 By Thomas Barrabi Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed Tuesday to testify before the New York City Council about AI-related safety risks after being slapped with a subpoena, according to Council Speaker Julie Menin. This article is an […]

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Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets

Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets 2026-10-13 at 21:20 By Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could […]

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