Two people showed me a strategy in the same week. The first had never tested his — he read about the setup, it made sense to him, and he funded the account on Monday. The second had a spreadsheet with 380 backtests in it and he was proud of the one sitting at the top....

On 2 August 2026 I opened a pull request to github/awesome-copilot and GitHub's Agent Governance Toolkit flagged my account HIGH risk. The signals were recent_repo_burst (29 repos in 90 days), awesome_fork_burst (15 awesome-list forks in 72 hours, labelled...

Productivity—it’s quite the buzzword these days. Popular podcasts are built entirely around the topic, and the corporate world has gone mad trying to measure it in its employees. That is a large reason why people use AI—it has been touted as being able to increase...

Seventeen traders on a City of London floor spat into test tubes twice a day for eight days. Eleven in the morning, four in the afternoon. Not the most glamorous research design ever approved. What John Coates and Joe Herbert found, published in PNAS in 2008, was that...

I’m a big fan of Google Slides. As someone who often helps out with multimedia at events, I much prefer receiving Google Slides over a PowerPoint file. This is for two main reasons. For one, it’s so much easier to collaborate with. The other side can update the slides...

The incident involved a testing environment set up by Irregular, similar to what Anthropic reported last week. The post Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Following my own experience fighting pregnancy discrimination, I’ve come to think of employment discrimination as a black box. Workers who are denied promotions, passed over for opportunities, or selected for layoffs rarely know why. They see the outcome, but not the...

Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. In several of the attack paths, the model never ran at all, so...

Maksim Silnikau was the creator and administrator of the ransomware group and involved in Angler EK’s distribution. The post Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle compile it...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the most powerful leaders in the world. Domestically popular and internationally influential, his government has long appeared almost unassailable. Recently, however, that aura of invincibility has begun to crack. Massive...

Ask most people what their phone is costing them, and they’ll point to their attention or sleep. But research suggests the cost may also be physical. Doctors are now using the informal term “phone body” to describe changes that follow years of hunching, squinting, and...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that...

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least...

A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has changed its pricing policy and will now honour quoted hardware prices from the day of issue until the kit leaves its factories. The new policy came into effect on Wednesday. The back story to this change is the AI boom, which has seen...

Chinese Wi-Fi router vendor Zbtlink has denied its products contain backdoors but paused firmware downloads while it fixes unspecified security vulnerabilities. The backdoor accusation came from VulnCheck, a provider of a threat intelligence platform. VulnCheck chief...

Proxmox Server Solutions, the company behind the open source Proxmox virtualization stack, has announced a port of its flagship Virtual Environment to the Arm CPU architecture – and a collaboration with Nvidia and Supermicro that made it happen. The outfit’s...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has taken a break from the cloud to turn Paint into a monitor for Doom, using the Windows clipboard as plumbing. Dubbed "MS Paint Doom" or "DoomPaint" – either will work – the project is the product of a spare-time experiment. To...

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Most musical organs use air as their working fluid, but there’s nothing in the rule book that says they have to. Calliopes have used steam for 150 years now, while [Look Mum No Computer] has opted to go full pyromaniac and pump propane though the summer’s hottest new...

Patches were rolled out for two dozen vulnerabilities, including one with public proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The post Cisco Patches Critical SD-WAN, IOS XE, FMC Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Tracked as CVE-2026-63077, the critical bug can be exploited without authentication for remote code execution. The post Hackers Start Exploiting Recent JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and...