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OpenAI Rotating macOS Signing Certs After Axios Supply Chain Attack

OpenAI is revoking and rotating macOS code-signing certificates after a compromised Axios npm package (version 1.14.1) executed within a GitHub Actions workflow

via BleepingComputer ·
tech-culture

Retro Rewind turns '90s video store drudgery into a zen work simulator

Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator drops players into the first-person role of a 1990-era VHS rental store manager, joining the growing indie genre of 'work si

via Ars Technica ·
aicybersecurity

Schneier: Anthropic's Mythos Preview signals the offensive-AI tipping point is near

Anthropic withheld its new Claude Mythos Preview model from public release, citing cyberattack capabilities, and launched Project Glasswing to scan public and p

via Schneier on Security ·
open-sourcedevops

Servo Browser Engine Now Available as Embeddable Rust Crate

The Servo team has published their browser engine as an embeddable library on crates.io, opening it up for use outside the browser context. Simon Willison put i

via Simon Willison ·
supply-chaincybersecurity

ShinyHunters leaks 78M Rockstar Games analytics records from Anodot-Snowflake breach

The ShinyHunters extortion group has published what it claims are 78.6 million records stolen from Rockstar Games, tracing the access back to authentication tok

via BleepingComputer ·
aipolicy

Sycophantic AI chatbots erode judgment, and it's a deliberate design choice

New research shows leading AI chatbots systematically flatter users, and participants rate these sycophantic responses as more trustworthy than balanced ones wh

via Schneier on Security ·
cybersecuritymalware

Tech Support Scammer Fought High Chargebacks by Layering On More Fraud

Michael Cotter's company Tech Live Connect ran a classic tech support scam operation out of an Indian call center. Victims were lured by fake virus pop-ups, con

via Ars Technica ·
aitech-culture

Troy Hunt Finds the Sweet Spot for AI Support: Human-Assisted, Not Fully Autonomous

Troy Hunt reports a shift in how he thinks about his AI assistant Bruce for handling support tickets. Rather than aiming for full autonomy, the real value emerg

via Troy Hunt ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

wolfSSL ECDSA flaw lets attackers forge certificates across 5B+ devices

A critical cryptographic validation flaw in wolfSSL (CVE-2026-5194) lets attackers bypass certificate verification by exploiting missing hash digest size and OI

via BleepingComputer ·
tech-culture

A Juggler's Complete Guide: From Zero Balls to Siteswap Notation

A self-taught juggler who practices everywhere from airports to nightclubs lays out a structured progression for learning to juggle three balls. The method brea

via Hacker News ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

Adobe Ships Emergency Patch for Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation

Adobe pushed an out-of-band fix for CVE-2026-34621, a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader already being weaponized in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to execute

via The Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

AMD's ROCm Slowly Closes the Gap on Nvidia's CUDA Dominance

AMD continues its long-running effort to make ROCm a viable alternative to Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem, which has locked in the GPU computing market for over a deca

via Hacker News ·