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A cyberattack caused disruptions at the toy and game giant earlier this year and the company is now disclosing a data breach. The post Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below – CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) – An authentication bypass flaw in
Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what…
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Frontier AI models get the headlines, but most production API bills are actually driven by a quieter category: fast, cheap, high-volume models built for everyday coding and agent tasks rather than PhD-level reasoning. In the last four weeks, all three major labs refreshed their budget tier at nearly the same time. DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-0731 on…
Security teams picking a phishing simulation and awareness platform in late 2026 are stuck choosing between three very different bets. KnowBe4 is the incumbent with the biggest content library and the widest brand recognition. Proofpoint Security Awareness Training (PSAT) is the safe pick for shops already paying for Proofpoint’s email security stack. Hoxhunt is the…
Open a fresh Node.js project in August 2026 and the first decision you make isn’t a framework or a database. It’s which command installs your dependencies. npm still ships in the box with every Node.js download. pnpm just pushed a major version bump to 12.1.0 and quietly became the most-downloaded package manager on the npm…
OpenAI has become the fourth major AI player to put hard performance numbers behind a custom chip built to outrun Nvidia at the one job that now eats the industry’s electricity bill: inference. On August 25, 2026, OpenAI published the first benchmark results for Jalapeño, the inference accelerator it built with Broadcom, and the numbers…
Traders bet Google Maps will rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in 2026. A Manifold market on whether Google Maps will relabel Lake Ontario as “Lake America” sits at roughly 83% implied probability of YES as of August 29, 2026, after more than half of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The…
Pogacar’s Vuelta Red Jersey Bet: Why Traders Price a Wire-to-Wire Hold at Just 1%. A Manifold market asking whether Tadej Pogacar will hold the red leader’s jersey for the entire 2026 Vuelta a Espana has drawn a sudden rush of activity, with roughly 68% of its all-time volume traded in a single day. As of…
