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A 24-day exploitation campaign chained three CVEs — including a standalone CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass — to gain admin control of self-hosted Artifactory instances and deploy persistent Rust malware. Between 49–62% of public instances remain unpatched.
The Netherlands NCSC has assessed both pre-authentication RCE vulnerabilities as facing near-term exploitation. All organizations running Check Point Security Gateways should apply LivePatch Take 24 immediately.
The three payment giants are exploring how to align their separate AI-agent verification protocols as agentic commerce is projected to reach $3-5 trillion by 2030.
The Italian holding company known for gutting staff at Evernote and WeTransfer after acquiring them is buying the collaborative whiteboard platform in an all-cash deal.
New connected products sold in the EU from today must give users direct data access by default, closing a gap in the Data Act's request-based rules from last year.
OpenAI's safety monitoring surfaced a 15-year-old's messages asking what he'd need to attack classmates, triggering a cross-border alert that reached Argentine police within days.
Two independent security disclosures this week found nearly every major AI coding agent executes trust-sensitive background commands before any approval prompt fires — a structural pattern, not a single bug.
Positron's memory-centric inference chips have drawn a fivefold valuation jump since February, betting that the AI compute bottleneck Nvidia doesn't own is where the money is.
The statement follows a viral resignation from a researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, warnings from OpenAI's own chief scientist, and a string of undisclosed AI agent security incidents.
The U.S. Defense Department's Office of Strategic Capital is in talks to back AI infrastructure builder Fluidstack in what would be its largest-ever loan, targeting power and cooling supply chain bottlenecks.
Enflame Technology raised $912 million and drew orders 6,000 times oversubscribed, closing the book on China's four-company domestic AI chip IPO wave.
Governor Newsom signed 13 bills restricting how tech companies can design chatbots and social platforms for minors, with penalties up to $1 million per child for negligent harm.