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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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