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Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has taken “coordinated legal action” in the United States and United Kingdom to disrupt a cybercrime subscription service called RedVDS that is said to have caused millions in fraudulent losses. The tech giant said the effort was part of a broader law enforcement operation in collaboration with law enforcement authorities to seize malicious infrastructure and enable the use of illegal services (“redvds”).[.]com”) offline. “For just $24 a month, RedVDS provides criminals with access to a disposable virtual computer, making fraud cheaper, more scalable, and harder to track,” said Steven Masada, Assistant Attorney General in Microsoft’s…
Europe’s automotive industry is in a race against time as electrification and digital transformation reshape the map of industrial employment. Europe’s auto workers are facing the most significant skills transition in decades as manufacturers move towards zero-emissions and software-driven vehicles. A new joint report from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) and Adecco Group warns that without a swift and concerted reskilling effort, the industry risks both deepening skills shortages and unnecessary turnover. Sigrid de Vries, Executive Director of ACEA, commented on the report: “Keeping value chains, jobs and innovation anchored in Europe requires a long-term approach that connects regions,…
January 15, 2026Ravi LakshmananNetwork security/vulnerabilities Palo Alto Networks has released a security update for a high-severity security flaw affecting GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal. It states that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit exists for this flaw. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-0227 (CVSS score: 7.7) and is described as a denial of service (DoS) condition affecting GlobalProtect PAN-OS software that occurs as a result of improper checking for an exception condition (CWE-754). “A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS software could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) to a firewall,” the company said in an advisory published…
The world’s longest thermometer measures the temperature of extreme substances. We use thermometers to measure body temperature in daily life. When scientists need to bring materials to extreme temperatures—for example, to recreate the conditions inside planets, fusion capsules, or laser-stressed metals—they use something much larger: a 3-kilometer X-ray laser. At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) produces ultra-bright, ultra-fast X-ray flashes that can directly track the movement of atoms. In this sense, it acts as the world’s longest thermometer, an X-ray beam that records measurements at the instant when a short-lived, highly excited state…
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup Thinking Machines Lab is bidding farewell to its two co-founders, who will both return to OpenAI. Another former OpenAI staff member who worked for Murati’s startup also plans to return to the company. On Wednesday, Murati announced on social media that the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Barrett Zoff, is leaving the company. “We have parted ways with Barrett. Somis Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines,” Murati said in a post on X. “He is an excellent and experienced leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for…
Elon Musk said Wednesday that he was “not aware of any images of naked minors generated by Grok,” hours before California’s attorney general launched an investigation into xAI’s chatbot for “spreading non-consensual sexually explicit content.” Musk’s denial comes amid mounting pressure from governments around the world, from the UK and Europe to Malaysia and Indonesia, after X users began asking Grok to transform photos of real women and even children into sexualized images without their consent. Copyleaks, an AI detection and content governance platform, estimated that approximately one image is posted every minute on X. Another sample collected from January…
Neel Somani, a software engineer, former quantitative researcher, and startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new models last weekend when he made an unexpected discovery. After pasting the problem into ChatGPT and letting it think for 15 minutes, I came back with a complete solution. He evaluated the proof and formalized it using a tool called Harmonic, and everything went well. “I was interested in establishing a baseline for when LLMs can effectively solve unsolved math problems compared to when they are struggling,” Somani said. What surprised me was that Frontier started to move forward little by…
Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs team announced that it had been null-routing traffic to more than 550 command and control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart Kimwolf have recently emerged as one of the largest botnets, capable of forcing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and relaying malicious traffic for residential proxy services. Details about Kimwolf were revealed last month when QiAnXin XLab published a thorough analysis of the malware. The malware turns compromised devices (mostly unauthorized Android TV streaming devices) into residential proxies by…
restart Digg, an early Internet online community that was once a rival to Redditmoving forward. The company is now back under the ownership of original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and will begin an open beta for the public on Wednesday. Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse a feed featuring posts from your chosen community and join other communities that match your interests. There you can post, comment, and upvote (or “dig”) content on the site. Digg was originally a Web 2.0-era news aggregation site that was…
Music distribution platform Bandcamp announced in a post on Reddit on Tuesday that it would ban AI-generated music and audio. “We want musicians to keep making music, and we want fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp is made by humans,” the company said in a statement. Bandcamp’s new guidelines state that music and audio generated “wholly or in large part by AI” is not allowed, and that using AI tools to imitate other artists or styles is not allowed. I mean, if Drake had released “Taylor Made Freestyle” on Bandcamp, he would have been in…