H idden within a drab Damascus shopping center, at the end of an unlit fourth-floor hallway, is the unmarked office of Shorouk for Protection, Guarding and Security Services. A sign informs visitors …
A man lies on a metal surface — emaciated, dead. He is photographed at multiple angles: up close, his chipped, yellow teeth glowing; from the side, his cloudy eyes like frosted glass; from afar, his …
T haer al-Najjar sat in a cramped basement office in a Damascus hotel, his hands trembling as he glanced down at a single piece of paper. Only the whirring of a ceiling fan filled the silence. …
** Dec 06, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan AI Security / Vulnerability Over 30 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Integrated Development Environments …
** Dec 06, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday formally added a critical security flaw impacting React …
The top 10 most intelligent open-source models all use a mixture-of-experts architecture. Kimi K2 Thinking, DeepSeek-R1, Mistral Large 3 and others run 10x faster on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. A look under …
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through …
A new computer modeling tool developed by an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) research team will help infrastructure planners working in the electricity and other energy-intensive sectors better predict …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Website Security A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the …
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** The Hacker News Cybercrime / Artificial Intelligence Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Cloud Security A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in …
For Brad Thorne, a police detective in Boise, Idaho, a single string of letters and numbers epitomizes how a sinister digital underworld relies on USDT, a popular cryptocurrency also known as tether. …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Web3 Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that’s capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Machine Learning / Vulnerability Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to …
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices In his 2020 book, “ Future Politics , ” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our …
Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, …
At AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services expanded their strategic collaboration with new technology integrations across interconnect technology, cloud infrastructure, open models and physical …
Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to …
Today, Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms. Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan AI Security / Software Supply Chain Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an npm package that attempts to influence artificial intelligence …
Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Blockchain The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** The Hacker News Identity Theft / Threat Intelligence A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD , conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and …
