Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged,...
Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO...
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/1000778/smart-home-june-oven-graveyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876373 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Employees’ confidence in their own employers just hit a 10-year low
Employee confidence has hit a 10-year low. According to a new report for September from the Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index, just 42.9% of employees surveyed had a positive six-month outlook for their employer’s business, down from 44.5% last month. The data comes...
Some Gemini Users Can Now Give the Chatbot an Interactive Avatar
The avatar interacts with you while Gemini performs background tasks.
How long will a 20,000 mAh power bank typically last?
If you need to charge your phone repeatedly while away from an outlet, a big power bank could be a good investment.
Ex-soldier’s telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
A former US Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking telecoms companies, stealing sensitive records, and trying to extort more than $1 million from his victims. Cameron John Wagenius, 22, carried out the campaign while serving on active duty....
Purpose is your organization’s antidote to AI skepticism
Rightfully, general trust in AI continues to fall. With AI models breaking rules and hacking companies, recent polling from Just Capital captures the broad consumer sentiment well: 78% of daily AI users think development should slow or pause so that AI companies can...
The $170 billion lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, took it a...
AI’s real potential: Orchestrating the technology around us
Many of America’s defining innovations have been things you could point to: the telephone, television, personal computer, and smartphone. Each expanded what people could do by putting a powerful new capability in their hands. Artificial intelligence is following a...
The new rules of brand reputation
For years, marketers and communications professionals have been taught to control the brand narrative. Define the message. Build the campaign. Push it out. Measure the response. But that model no longer reflects how reputation is built or trust is earned. Today, a...
The AI boom’s biggest payoff could be better medicines
The AI boom has rapidly expanded from the digital to the physical. Chips, data centers, cloud infrastructure, and new sources of power are being built at extraordinary speed. But what valuable work will this capacity enable? At the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Annual...
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach’s aggressive fiber discount
Ofcom has blocked an Openreach discount for bringing customers onto its fiber network, warning that rivals might be unable to match the price and recover their costs. The "Incremental New to Openreach Customer Offer" was one of several pricing changes due to take...
Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy
As AI is reshaping the tech world, so it in turn waits for something greater to come along and reshape it, and that unstoppable force might just be TypeSafe AI's new model, Jev. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple Podcasts,...
HP’s Future of Work Accelerator Takes on AI’s Entry-Level Catch-22
AI may take over the tasks that once trained new hires. At HP's Pitch Fest, five organizations offered new routes to the experience employers expect. The post HP's Future of Work Accelerator Takes on AI's Entry-Level Catch-22 appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step
A small Scottish startup made a modular, repairable smart-ish watch, showing up the rest of the wearables industry in the process.
UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants
The UK government is setting up a new unit it promises will "bring forward the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation." Government outsourcing has long attracted criticism over value for money and service quality, with technology-heavy business processes among the...
How to onboard a virtual teammate
Imagine going to a job board, making a hire for a chief of staff, and onboarding that new hire within a few minutes. That’s the fantasy that artificial intelligence companies are making a reality with virtual teammates. Optimizely recently released virtual teammates...
eBay’s CEO finds ideas through constant feedback
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages...
Even AI can’t perfectly build Ikea furniture—yet
Building Ikea furniture is not for the faint of heart. So much so that folklore suggests assembling a dresser, a bed, or anything from the Swedish brand can create enough tension it may even destroy a relationship. But beyond the stuff’s being a pain to build, it...
Rosetta Stone wants to reinvent language learning for the smartphone era
Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone has long taken advantage of technological advances to deliver language learning to customers in the comfort of their own homes. Early on, that technology was the CD-ROM; the company’s yellow-boxed software packages were a familiar sight...
DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records
The Medicaid IDs and other information of Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries were exposed. The post DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The US government plans to use AI to help redact documents
AI use for FOIA requests might result in even more information being withheld.
Gemini Goes Beyond Answering Calls With Outbound Calling
The feature can help you reschedule an appointment, reserve a table at a local restaurant, and more.
Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
Article URL: https://markmanson.substack.com/p/intellectuals-are-fcking-idiots Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875802 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Using the SNES Super FX Chip to Run Super Mario 64
Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its sleeve in the form of the Super FX chip. One major advantage of using cartridge-based games is that you have the option to add wild features...
Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign
The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273. The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform. The post New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Federal officials once feared Amazon could train AI on government data
Even the government sometimes freaks out about changes to the terms and conditions. Documents obtained by Fast Company through a public records request show that officials of at least two federal agencies were, at least briefly, anxious about whether Amazon might have...
Our brains are overstimulated, and cities aren’t helping
You are standing at a crosswalk. The light is red. A bus roars past you a little too closely. Your phone buzzes with a BOGO offer from Starbucks. A billboard changes from a perfume ad to a phone number of a personal injury law firm. Someone is talking about their...