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- Think twice before installing this device promising free moviesby Dan Goodin on August 31, 2026 at 4:33 pm
In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
- Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centersby Paresh Dave, WIRED.com on August 30, 2026 at 11:03 am
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
- Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCPby Dan Goodin on August 28, 2026 at 11:15 am
The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.
- Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networksby Dan Goodin on August 27, 2026 at 2:00 pm
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
- How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Faceby Dan Goodin on August 27, 2026 at 12:58 pm
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
- AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”by Scharon Harding on August 26, 2026 at 9:25 pm
Report shows Meta’s challenges replacing people with AI agents.
- Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handedby Dan Goodin on August 24, 2026 at 7:19 pm
Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.
- Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uberby Rafe Rosner Uddin and Michael Taffe, Financial Times on August 21, 2026 at 1:11 pm
Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
- Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encryptedby Dan Goodin on August 20, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
- Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hackedby Dan Goodin on August 18, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
- Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceXby Rafe Rosner-Uddin on August 17, 2026 at 2:22 pm
Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.
- Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitationby Dan Goodin on August 14, 2026 at 6:32 pm
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
- PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage providerby Scharon Harding on August 14, 2026 at 5:03 pm
“We don’t have access to the data on the hardware/servers,” Iron Mountain told Ars.
- OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain groundby Jamie John on August 14, 2026 at 2:27 pm
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
- Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminalsby Dan Goodin on August 13, 2026 at 7:38 pm
Trump memo is first time gov’t has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.
- Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attackby Dan Goodin on August 12, 2026 at 9:43 pm
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
- DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flightby Cyrus Farivar on August 12, 2026 at 12:08 am
FBI Atlanta confirms it’s looking into the incident, no arrests made.
- Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeoversby Dan Goodin on August 11, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
- New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeysby Dan Goodin on August 11, 2026 at 11:30 am
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
- Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllersby Dan Goodin on August 5, 2026 at 10:35 pm
Baseboard management controllers from the world’s biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
























