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Seiko USA site defaced with ransom note claiming Shopify customer DB theft
Attackers replaced the Press Lounge section of Seiko USA's website over the weekend with a ransom message claiming they had breached the company's Shopify backe
Serial-to-IP Converters Carry Thousands of Latent Bugs Across OT Networks
Serial-to-IP devices — the small gateways that bridge legacy serial equipment to modern Ethernet networks — are riddled with vulnerabilities, many inherited fro
SGLang RCE Flaw Turns Malicious GGUF Model Files Into Code Execution
A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-5760 has been disclosed in SGLang, a serving framework widely used to run large language models at scale. Rated 9.8
Solar Posts Largest Single-Year Growth of Any Energy Source in History
The EIA's 2025 global energy analysis confirms solar as the dominant source of new generation, with growth that the agency calls unprecedented for any energy so
Vercel Breach Traces to Employee's AI Tool Integrations
Vercel has disclosed a data breach tied to an employee account whose access to AI-assisted development tools became the pivot point for unauthorized data exposu
Weekly Threat Digest: Vercel Breach, Push Fraud, QEMU Abuse, Android RAT Surge
A compressed week of incidents points to attackers moving up the stack and into the edges of developer infrastructure. A breach at Vercel — a platform sitting i
WhatsApp Metadata Leak Hands Attackers a Free Reconnaissance Channel
WhatsApp is exposing user metadata in a way that lets attackers harvest information about accounts without ever sending a message or triggering a notification.
Blue Origin reuses New Glenn booster, but upper stage fails mid-mission
Blue Origin pulled off its first reflight of an orbital-class booster on Sunday, landing the New Glenn first stage Never Tell Me The Odds on an Atlantic recover
Claude Opus 4.7 system prompt: less verbose, tool-first, tighter child safety
Simon Willison diffed Anthropic's published system prompts between Claude Opus 4.6 (February 2026) and 4.7 (April 16, 2026), surfacing meaningful behavioral shi
Claude system prompts restructured into a git timeline for prompt archaeology
Simon Willison converted Anthropic's published Claude system prompt history—originally a single markdown page—into a git repository with per-model, per-family f
Edge Regression Breaks Right-Click Paste in Teams Desktop Chats
A recent Microsoft Edge update shipped a code regression that disables the right-click Paste option in Microsoft Teams desktop chats. Because Teams relies on Ed
Great whites' warm-blooded edge becomes liability as oceans heat up
Great white sharks and other mesothermic fish-species that maintain body temperatures above surrounding seawater-face a physiological squeeze as oceans warm, ac