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A bizarre chain reaction of hacking, adult content theft, and copyright enforcement is producing an unexpected outcome: hacked government websites are being taken down by DMCA takedown notices filed by OnlyFans creators. WIRED reports that scammers have been hijacking legitimate government websites, often poorly maintained municipal or state pages, to host advertisements for “leaked” OnlyFans […]

Check Point Research has demonstrated that DeepSeek V4 generated near-functional browser-based ransomware, dubbed InfernoGrabber 9000, that uses Chrome’s legitimate File System Access API to encrypt local files across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, without requiring any native malware installation or exploit. The proof-of-concept reveals a new attack vector: an AI model independently linked a theoretical […]

Intel has published a patent for a novel high-bandwidth memory design called XBM (Cross-Batch Memory) that aims to challenge HBM4’s dominance in AI accelerators and data center processors, using UCIe interconnects and back-end-of-line DRAM to sidestep the cost and complexity of traditional HBM packaging. HBM has become the de facto memory standard for AI hardware, […]

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, the FBI, and industry partners have dismantled NetNut, a massive residential proxy network that secretly hijacked over 2 million smart TVs, streaming boxes, and Android devices to launder cybercriminal traffic. Also known as Popa, the botnet infected devices through trojanized applications and malware such as Badbox 2.0, infecting everything from off-brand […]

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI-powered content moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images, including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, and simple white or gray transparent backgrounds, were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed the issue had been affecting accounts since May, […]

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own custom inference chip, marking a strategic pivot toward hardware independence as US export controls tighten access to advanced semiconductors. The project, confirmed by three people familiar with the matter and first reported by Reuters, has been underway for roughly a year. DeepSeek has been quietly building a […]

Meta has launched Muse Image, its first in-house AI image generation model, with a feature that lets users pull a friend’s Instagram likeness into a generated photo, raising familiar questions about consent, deepfakes, and synthetic content in social feeds. Built by the Alexandr Wang-led Meta Superintelligence Lab, Muse Image is now available in the US […]

Anthropic has expanded Claude Cowork beyond its desktop-only origins, launching the AI agent on web browsers, iOS, and Android, and shifting its execution model to the cloud so tasks continue running even when devices are offline. Originally launched in January 2026 as a desktop application for Mac and Windows, Cowork was Anthropic’s answer to giving […]

Intel is bringing AVX-512 support back to its consumer CPUs with the upcoming Nova Lake architecture, according to Linux kernel patches and multiple independent sources, ending a six-year hiatus that left AMD with a feature advantage on client platforms. The AVX-512 instruction set enables 512-bit vector operations, delivering significant performance improvements for workloads in scientific […]

Cybersecurity researchers at Sysdig have documented what they assess to be the first ransomware operation driven end-to-end by a large language model, a milestone that lowers the skill floor for running a complete extortion campaign. Dubbed JadePuffer and classified as an agentic threat actor (ATA), the operation gained initial access through an internet-facing Langflow instance […]