Cyber Security
Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys
Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization's SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that encrypt traffic between sites and store them for later use, Cisco…
Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day
CVE-2026-41709 allows attackers with administrative privileges to perform operations without being logged. The post Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cyber Vulnerabilities Besiege Italy, Absent Clear Cause
Researchers can't quite explain why cyber threats look so different in Italy compared to everywhere else.
AI & Automation
An AI model’s false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they’re told and still cause trouble
An expert on AI governance explains why these rare mistakes may soon be common, and with much higher stakes.
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…
Privacy & Identity
Court Should Curb Abuse of Grand Jury Subpoenas Targeting Social Media Users
💾 Fighting DOGE’s Data Grab | EFFector 38.19
Social Media When Elections Are Close: Doing the Impossible Better
New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI Experiment
Enterprise Tech
GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost
GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
What happens when the agent is long gone, but its access key lives on?
Developers
GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack
Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents
Delivering controlled and concentrated context
Airbnb Cuts Recommendation Staleness from 2 Days to Seconds with Chronon
Policy & Regulation
Meet ProPublica’s 2026 Class of Emerging Reporters
How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement
This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.
Congress is freeing Trump of the limited legal requirements left on him by the Supreme Court
Markets & Economy
The major reason Microsoft’s stock is heading higher after earnings
Why Alphabet’s stock could see its worst drop in years after the latest results
Fortinet’s stock is taking a dive after earnings. Here’s why.
Chipotle expects modestly higher sales this year as drive-thru ‘Chipotlanes’ come to more stores
Tech Careers
PwC confirms learning records breached in attack on vendor site
AI at work: Employees, employers may not be on the same page
Too much disruption can affect workplace culture
Rising wages still fall short of higher cost of living, analysis shows
Gadgets
Huawei’s Starlight brand to debut with a wide-screen phone, leak claims
Honor X8e 4G quietly launches with a 108MP camera and a 7,700mAh battery
Russia now requires Apple to store user communications and hand them over if requested
Apple fined $15.5 million as South Korea orders changes to App Store rules
Science
RAF base chemical contamination worst in UK, report says
‘It’s a theatre and we’re pawns’: taking the stand as an expert witness – podcast
End of COVID-era SNAP emergency food assistance linked to increased child maltreatment rates
Optimistic climate futures for local communities in the UK imagined in a new report
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Tariffs, diesel and computer chips are driving up costs for automakers
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Their colleges closed, but the government refuses to erase their debts, lawsuit says
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One Nation accuses PM of trying to ‘exert undue political influence’ by offering David Farley an extra staffer
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Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys
Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization's SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys… Read More about Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys