Cyber Security
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]
AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom
Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.
FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack
AI & Automation
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
Elizabeth Dias, our national religion correspondent, and Cade Metz, one of our technology reporters, discuss Anthropic’s approach for instilling morality into Claude — which has involved consultations with religious leaders, including ones at the Vatican — and why it’s raising questions.
Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers
Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while…
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Sonnet 5.5 model, details here
Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the The post Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price appeared first on The New Stack .
Privacy & Identity
Resisting the Menace of Federal Data Consolidation
Organizing in the Town at Oakland Tech Week
Turkish Crackdown On LGBTQ+ Organizations Threatens Freedom of Expression and Association
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
Enterprise Tech
Kubernetes on cgroup v1 is dead. Here’s what comes next.
Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook
Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs.
AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.
Developers
Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring
Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build
Shopify Upgrades Checkout Blocks to Polaris Web Components, Cutting Bundle Sizes up to 85%
A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages
Policy & Regulation
New York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction
The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
Markets & Economy
Country music star Zach Bryan buys $18 million, 40-acre Tennessee estate after getting married
Microsoft is nearing a big milestone that solidifies its revival
Why you need to take a closer look at your favorite stock index
More evidence that broad-market index funds remain unbeatable, even in the era of AI stock-picking
Tech Careers
EEOC’s FY 2026 was ‘historically anemic,’ but big on messaging
EEOC obtains $23K for Muslim barista denied accommodation for Ramadan
Many young working parents may struggle to find high-quality jobs
DHS proposes $70K fee for initial Optional Practical Training participation
Technology
Tech Now
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites
Long live the mechanical keyboard
World
‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die
Create new pre-apprenticeship scheme to close youth unemployment gap, says Milburn
Putin tells Trump peace talks are unlikely, cites Ukraine drone attacks
Intercommunal clashes kill 71 people in South Sudan
Science
Mountaineer: ‘Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today’
Geologists uncover evidence of a missing Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in northwestern Iran
Three quantum-inspired cores leave opposite fingerprints on the ringing of black holes
Aspens ‘remember’ past drought in their leaves, 3-year experiment finds
Latest News in details
‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die
Dozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of ‘mass hysteria’? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who… Read More about ‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die
Create new pre-apprenticeship scheme to close youth unemployment gap, says Milburn
Exclusive: Former minister’s review warns that dramatic action is needed over huge drop in youth apprenticeship starts A national apprenticeship readiness scheme should be introduced in England to close the gap for young people… Read More about Create new pre-apprenticeship scheme to close youth unemployment gap, says Milburn
Putin tells Trump peace talks are unlikely, cites Ukraine drone attacks
Drone attacks on Moscow during last month's election undermined trilateral peace negotiations, the Kremlin says. Read More about Putin tells Trump peace talks are unlikely, cites Ukraine drone attacks
Mountaineer: ‘Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today’
Seventy-three years ago, Tenzing Norgay stood on top of Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan, which roughly translates as "Goddess Mother of the World." Read More about Mountaineer: ‘Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today’
Tech Now
Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage. Read More about Tech Now
Geologists uncover evidence of a missing Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in northwestern Iran
Mountains preserve evidence of ancient oceans, moving continents and tectonic processes that have shaped Earth over millions of years. Later deformation, erosion and burial, however, can obscure important parts of this geological record. An… Read More about Geologists uncover evidence of a missing Late Cretaceous magmatic arc in northwestern Iran