Cyber Security
Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records
Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. [...]
Week in review: FortiBleed is still active, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor In this Help Net Security interview, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work…
Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management
Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that connects exposure discovery with investigation, risk prioritization, and response. [...]
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
Claude Code found my app’s shared contract in two MCP calls. Then the records ran out.
Claude found 29,000 possible bugs in open source. Only 516 have been fixed.
How to turn AI production feedback into better agents
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.
Developers
Context Language Models: Self-Managing Context to Improve Performance and Reduce Compute Costs
Foresight AI Brings Gremlin Agents to Reliability Engineering
AWS Introduces Enhanced Custom Event Buses for EventBridge
Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing
Policy & Regulation
As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
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.
Markets & Economy
We’re about to get a huge read on whether earnings can keep propping up the stock market
Winter is coming and energy bills are climbing. ‘Everything just keeps going up.’
Why Nvidia’s stock is dodging the AI credit scare that is crushing Broadcom and Oracle
‘What you don’t know is greater than anything you do know’: How Ray Dalio would build a portfolio to withstand a popping AI bubble
Tech Careers
EEOC’s FY 2026 was ‘historically anemic,’ but big on messaging
EEOC obtains $23K for Muslim barista denied accommodation for Ramadan
DHS proposes $70K fee for initial Optional Practical Training participation
Many young working parents may struggle to find high-quality jobs
Gadgets
Someone ported Pixel 11’s Rambler voice-to-text to other Android phones
The original Apple TV 4K from 2017 is now officially “vintage”
Kuxiu’s D5 charger now comes in Burgundy to perfectly match your iPhone 18 Pro
Apple planning huge iPhone Duo demo experiences at select retail stores: report
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‘Prepare for the unthinkable’ warning over autumn flooding
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An Israeli Election Like No Other
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Deadly air strike kills dozens at Sudan gold mine near Egypt border
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