** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 18, 2026 Vulnerability / Zero-Day Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, …
Homepage-Fragments
Three Discover screenshots on the Google app for iPhone as seen by Press Gazette on 6 August 2025 Breaking news on Google Discover is making up almost all growth in search referrals for major US news …
comp-journalism
EN
News diary 16-22 March: Carney visits UK, BBC seeks Trump lawsuit dismissal, SNL launches in UK
Trump threatens to sue BBC for apology or $1bn over Trump speech was doctored, which dominated the front page of UK newspapers. Picture: Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The week begins with Canadian …
With a wide array of Nova customization offerings, the journey to customization and transitioning between platforms has traditionally been intricate, necessitating technical expertise, infrastructure …
Large language models (LLMs) have transformed how we interact with AI, but one size doesn’t fit at all. Out-of-the-box LLMs are trained with broad, general knowledge and improved for a wide range of …
Moving AI agents from prototypes to production surfaces a challenge that traditional testing is unable to address. Agents are flexible, adaptive, and context-aware by design, but the same qualities …
ai-research
EN
ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Can LLMs autonomously refine other LLMs for …
Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both. Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 18, 2026 Network Security / Ransomware Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that’s exploiting a recently disclosed critical …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 18, 2026 Vulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be …
When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 18, 2026 Network Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) …
Paul Sculfor. Distributed by Hamlins Four hacking claims against the publisher of the Mirror have been dismissed as a judge found the claimants could have known they had a case before the six-year …
Book by Andy Ngo who is suing Guardian News and Media. Picture: Shutterstock/Dylanhatfield.com Guardian News and Media has been granted permission to appeal a pre-trial libel judgment that found it …
comp-journalism
EN
Publishers at Press Gazette US conference agree blocking is best strategy for bots
Roundtable at Media Strategy Network USA event on 12 March. Picture: Nick Starichenko/Press Gazette Publishers should block AI training bots from accessing their content to pave the way for future …
Local newspapers Bury Free Press and East Anglian Daily Times. Picture: Shutterstock The UK Government will pay up to £12m to local media outlets over the next two years to support innovation and …
Scarlet Howes (left, Press Gazette) | Martin Clunes playing Huw Edwards (Channel 5) The Sun’s US editor Scarlet Howes has said the dramatised TV version of her Huw Edwards expose will help raise the …
ai-research
EN
Roche Scales NVIDIA AI Factories Globally to Accelerate Drug Discovery, Diagnostic Solutions and Manufacturing Breakthroughs
Roche is deploying more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across hybrid cloud and on‑premises environments in the U.S. and Europe, expanding on an existing collaboration to turn AI and accelerated …
Setting up AI factories in simulation — decreasing deployment time from months to days — is accelerating the next industrial revolution. Nowhere was that more apparent than at GTC 2026, in San Jose, …
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a …
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of …
ai-security
EN
ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 16th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9850, (Mon, Mar 16th)
ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 16th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9850
Attempts to find proxy servers are among the most common scans our honeypots detect. Most of the time, the attacker attempts to use a host header or include the hostname in the URL to trigger the …
ai-security
EN
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9852, (Tue, Mar 17th)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9852
Yesterday, in my diary about the scans for “/proxy/” URLs, I noted how attackers are using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses to possibly obfuscate their attack. These addresses are defined in RFC …