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Mozilla's Thunderbolt targets enterprises wanting self-hosted AI stacks

Mozilla has entered the enterprise AI space with Thunderbolt, a front-end client designed for organizations that want to run AI infrastructure on their own hard

via Ars Technica ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

NGINX MCP Integration Flaw Exposes Servers to Critical Risk

A critical vulnerability in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration layer used with NGINX deployments creates an exploitable path into server infrastructur

via Dark Reading ·
cybersecuritymalware

North Korean Operators Weaponize ClickFix Lure Against macOS Targets

North Korea-linked threat actors have extended the ClickFix social engineering technique to macOS, using fake verification prompts and error dialogs to trick us

via Dark Reading ·
aitech-culture

OpenAI debuts GPT-Rosalind, a biology-specialized LLM for research workflows

OpenAI has released GPT-Rosalind, a large language model fine-tuned specifically for biological research rather than general scientific work. Named after Rosali

via Ars Technica ·
aidevops

OpenAI pitches Codex as a general-purpose coding agent

OpenAI is positioning Codex as an AI coding assistant intended to handle a broad range of software engineering tasks, expanding beyond narrow code completion in

via Hacker News ·
identitycybersecurity

Orphaned Non-Human Identities: The Silent Attack Surface Hiding in Your Stack

Non-human identities - service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, machine credentials - now vastly outnumber human users in most enterprise environments, and a g

via The Hacker News ·
cybersecuritymalware

PHANTOMPULSE RAT Rides Malicious Obsidian Plugins Into Finance and Crypto Targets

Attackers are weaponizing the plugin ecosystem of Obsidian, the popular note-taking application, to deliver a remote access trojan dubbed PHANTOMPULSE. The camp

via The Hacker News ·
cybersecuritymalware

PowMix Botnet Targets Czech Workforce With Randomized C2 Traffic Patterns

A newly identified botnet dubbed PowMix is actively infecting systems across Czech enterprises, with researchers flagging the campaign as notable for its comman

via The Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

Qwen3.6-35B beats Claude Opus 4.7 at Willison's pelican SVG benchmark

Simon Willison's long-running "pelican riding a bicycle" SVG test produced an unexpected result: a 21GB quantized Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model running locally on a Mac

via Simon Willison ·
vulnerabilitycybersecurity

Second Microsoft Defender zero-day PoC drops as researcher protests MSRC treatment

A researcher going by "Chaotic Eclipse" has released a proof-of-concept for "RedSun," a local privilege escalation zero-day in Microsoft Defender that yields SY

via BleepingComputer ·
aiopen-source

Simon Willison uses Claude Artifacts to build a YAML preview tool for Datasette news

The datasette.io news section is driven by a news.yaml file in the project's GitHub repository, where each entry combines a date with a markdown body. Editing r

via Simon Willison ·
privacycybersecurity

Taboola Widgets on Banking Sites Leak Authenticated Session Data to Temu

A tracking chain embedded in Taboola's recommendation widgets is forwarding authenticated user signals from banking portals to Temu's ad infrastructure. Logged-

via The Hacker News ·