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DPRK Operators Lean on AI-Generated npm Payloads and Shell Companies in Latest Campaign
North Korean threat actors have refreshed their developer-targeting playbook, pushing malicious npm packages whose payloads show fingerprints of AI-assisted aut
Exposure management platforms: what buyers should demand vs. what vendors actually ship
Exposure management has become the umbrella category for tools that promise to unify vulnerability scanning, attack surface discovery, asset inventory, and risk
FCC license threat against ABC faces steep legal wall thanks to 1996 statute
The FCC ordered Disney to file early renewal applications for all ABC-owned TV station licenses by May 28, arriving one day after Trump and the first lady deman
Iran strikes on AWS facilities push Pure DC to freeze Gulf data center buildout
Pure Data Centre Group, a London-based developer running more than 1GW of capacity across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, has halted all new Middle East inve
Judge rejects Bankman-Fried's bid for new trial, calls conspiracy theory baseless
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Sam Bankman-Fried's motion for a new trial, ruling that the FTX founder's claims of newly discovered witnesses and Biden-e
LLM 0.32a0 refactors Python library around message sequences and typed streaming parts
Simon Willison has shipped an alpha of his LLM library that abandons its original prompt-in/text-out abstraction in favor of two richer primitives: prompts as o
LLM 0.32a1 patches tool-call conversation reinflation bug from SQLite
Simon Willison shipped a quick follow-up release to his LLM command-line tool, tagged 0.32a1. The single fix addresses a regression introduced in the prior 0.32
Lotus Wiper Hits Venezuelan Energy and Utility Operators
A destructive malware strain dubbed Lotus has been deployed against Venezuelan energy companies and utility providers, according to reporting from Dark Reading.
Noctua publishes official 3D CAD models for its cooling fan lineup
Noctua has made official 3D CAD models of its cooling fans available through its website, giving engineers and integrators authoritative geometry to work with i
OpenAI traces the origin of 'goblins' — AI-generated artifact memes
OpenAI published a post titled 'Where the goblins came from,' apparently tracing the lineage of a recurring class of AI-generated visual artifacts that have tak
OpenAI's Codex system prompt bans GPT-5.5 from mentioning goblins
OpenAI's recently open-sourced Codex CLI repository on GitHub includes a base instruction file for GPT-5.5 that twice forbids the model from talking about "gobl
Qinglong scheduler RCE chain mines crypto on exposed Chinese dev servers
Two authentication bypass flaws in Qinglong, a self-hosted task scheduler with strong adoption among Chinese developers, are being chained for remote code execu