Over 2,500 Organizations Impacted by LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack
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AI Is Making Everyone Faster but Not Necessarily Better
AI Is Making Everyone Faster but Not Necessarily Better Go to Source I used to think AI tools would make bad work disappear. Turns out I was wrong: They made bad work faster. That sounds harsh, but anyone who has opened a shared doc,...
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content Go to Source Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696 Comments URL:...
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in the...
How I Used GPT-5.6 Sol to Upgrade an Existing Product Without Rebuilding It
How I Used GPT-5.6 Sol to Upgrade an Existing Product Without Rebuilding It Go to Source A solo builder’s notes on using GPT-5.6 as a product reviewer, code reviewer, and design partner—not just a code generator. In 2025, I wrote...
Dutch Train Map Simulator
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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials
Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( https://discoveredmaterials.com/ ). We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry.GPUs today have a heat problem. Nvidia & AMD are almost doubling the TDP (Thermal Design...
Thrivent CEO Terry Rasmussen: Everything I need to know about business I learned from cleaning people’s teeth
Today, I lead a Fortune 500 financial services company with more than 2 million clients. Over the course of a 40-year career, I’ve had the chance to help guide organizations through periods of growth and transformation. What’s striking to me is how many of the most...
GitHub Users Adapt to Initially Disliked Features but Retain Lingering Frustrations
GitHub Users Adapt to Initially Disliked Features but Retain Lingering Frustrations Go to Source Introduction: The Love-Hate Relationship with GitHubGitHub occupies a peculiar space in the developer psyche—it’s the platform we can’t...
This design studio spent 10 years perfecting a lampshade made out of bacteria
The Cenit lighting system is grown to order. That’s because the collection of pendant and table lamps, designed by Mexican biotech company Polybion and Mexican design studio Natural Urbano, uses lampshades grown from bacteria. Polybion calls the biomaterial used in...
The unreleased Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have ended up in an unsuspecting buyer’s hands
An Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have been sold in a marketplace, months after images of the unreleased model were leaked.
Google Magnifier helps me see very small print (when I can’t find my glasses)
If you regularly find yourself in a situation where you've left your glasses behind and you need to read fine print or something far away, Google has an app right up your alley.
Frontier AI raises the cybersecurity bar: Why prediction must become prevention
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate routine work. But it is also giving attackers the ability to discover...
Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter
Cloudflare Inc. reported today that distributed denial-of-service attacks above 1 terabit per second grew sixfold between the first and second quarters of 2026, to 805 from 130. That took the half-year total to 935 attacks over 1 Tbps, against 219 in the fourth...
Blumira launches Hearth, an AI command center that spans rival security tools
Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic artificial intelligence command center that lets security teams investigate and act across their existing tools from a single interface. The product is available to...
DEF CON hackers launch Water Watch Center to defend small water utilities
DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association have launched the Water Watch Center, a program that delivers managed cybersecurity services to small water utilities that have no security staff of their own. The launch came on Aug. 7 at the DEF CON hacker...
Corma launches with $60M in funding for defensive cybersecurity AI
Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised $60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco and describes itself as a...
Rapid7 beats estimates, raises profit outlook and cuts 12% of staff
Shares of Rapid7 Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates while disclosing plans to cut roughly 12% of its workforce. For the quarter ended on June 30, Rapid7 reported adjusted...
On theCUBE Pod: Black Hat exposes agentic threat, theCUBE remembers David Floyer
Artificial intelligence systems are developing faster than cybersecurity experts — and the energy grid — can keep up with. At the recent Black Hat USA event, security analysts viewed the rise of AI-driven cyberattacks as a “sky is falling” threat, according to Dave...
Elastic targets AI-powered SOC with Alert Zero to eliminate alert fatigue
Security operations centers have spent years stacking tools to solve alert volume issues that tools simply can’t fix, and Elastic is now making the case that AI-powered SOC is the only viable path forward. The problem is structural, according to Mike Nichols...
Finding big money for AI and a smaller world for security at Black Hat USA 2026
Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026. A bandwagon of million-dollar booths for overfunded agentic security startups arose like mirages from the desert. Fortunately,...
Post-quantum security puts crypto agility at the center of infrastructure protection
The post-quantum security transition is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges facing enterprise and government infrastructure. In “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, adversaries steal encrypted data today to unlock it once quantum computers mature....
Cyber risk management moves beyond dashboards toward autonomous remediation
Organizations are rebuilding cyber risk management around faster response as frontier AI turns newly discovered vulnerabilities into usable weapons within hours. The shrinking window between vulnerability discovery and weaponization came up in nearly every...
Fortinet targets network security platform convergence to address AI-era complexity
In the rush to adopt AI, enterprise security architectures are diminishing, and the only appropriate response is a network security platform that incorporates networking and security into a single, consistently governed fabric. That’s the vision Anthony James...
How to combat the new threats in open-source libraries
The recent breach of GitHub Inc. that gave attackers access to around 4,000 of the platform’s internal code repositories dramatizes the growing threats from malicious actors who bury malware in open-source software libraries. Supply chains are coveted targets for...
Shared context speeds risk response across security and engineering
Security and engineering teams can no longer operate in silos as software delivery accelerates and adversaries move faster with AI, requiring shared context from production data so both sides can prioritize risk and respond without friction. At Black Hat USA 2026,...
Blackstone, KKR and CME targeted in vishing wave tied to BlackFile crew
Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group today said the extortion crew behind the retired BlackFile brand has spent June and July working its way through private equity firms, law firms and financial services companies. Reuters reports that the phishing domains...
Microsoft looks beyond faster patching to safer software in the AI era
AI is ending the era of scarce vulnerabilities, making powerful offensive capabilities abundant and pushing cybersecurity teams to move beyond reactive patching toward fundamentally safer software construction. That reality was the core of a Black Hat USA keynote from...
Cloudflare shares jump 18% on revenue beat and raised full-year outlook
Shares in Cloudflare Inc. were up more than 18% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat second-quarter estimates and raised its full-year forecast. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Cloudflare reported adjusted earnings...
Broadcom updates VMware security for AI-era threats
Broadcom Inc. today introduced new security, performance and automation capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation that are intended to help enterprises defend private clouds against artificial intelligence-assisted attacks while reducing operational complexity and...