Russia's Star Blizzard Ditches ClickFix to Widen Phishing Net
The APT actor is using a new tactic, dubbed "RedFlick," against Ukrainian-linked targets such as NGOs, think tanks, and journalists to deploy its CosmicPulse backdoor.
Month: September 2026
LMArena vs Artificial Analysis: 6M Votes vs 10 Tests [2026]
Type “llm leaderboard” into Google in September 2026 and you will not get one answer. You will get five. LMArena says one model is on top. Artificial Analysis says another. OpenRouter’s usage rankings say something else entirely, and if you stumble onto an old bookmark for Hugging Face’s Open LLM Leaderboard, you will land on…
Zenity vs HiddenLayer vs Straiker: $61M AI Agent Security Funding Gap [2026]
Three companies raised a combined $289 million in the seven weeks between August 3 and September 24, 2026, all chasing the same problem: nobody is watching what AI agents actually do once they start acting. Zenity closed a $125 million Series C on August 3. HiddenLayer followed with a $100 million Series B on September…
CoreWeave to Offer NVIDIA Vera, First AI Agent CPU [2026]
CoreWeave confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it will bring NVIDIA Vera to its cloud, a processor NVIDIA is calling the first CPU built specifically for AI agents. The announcement lands alongside CoreWeave’s rollout of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, and it marks a shift in how cloud providers think about the “boring”…
AMD EPYC 9006 Venice: 256 Cores, $14,904 Zen 6 Chip [2026]
AMD used the final week of September 2026 to put a number on the table that server buyers have been waiting for: 256 cores. The company’s sixth-generation EPYC family, code-named “Venice” and sold under the EPYC 9006 branding, is built on the new Zen 6 architecture and is now confirmed to be in production, according…
Polymarket Puts ‘Another Fed Rate Hike in 2026?’ at 81% After Hawkish Fed Chorus
Polymarket puts “Another Fed rate hike in 2026?” at 81%, and the odds just jumped. As of September 30, 2026, traders on Polymarket price roughly an 81% implied probability that the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at least once more before year-end, a move of about 10 points in 24 hours on unusually heavy volume.…
Polymarket Puts October Fed “No Change” at 60% as Rate-Hike Bets Collapse in 24 Hours
Polymarket Puts October Fed “No Change” at 60% as Rate-Hike Bets Collapse in 24 Hours. A Polymarket contract asking whether the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged after its October meeting jumped to a 60% implied probability of “yes” as of September 30, 2026, a move of about 27 points in a single day.…
PC Fan Control Software Setup: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]
A stock fan curve is a compromise. Motherboard makers tune it to keep every chip alive across a huge range of cases, coolers and ambient temperatures, which means most gaming PCs either run louder than they need to at idle or ramp too late once a game actually loads the CPU and GPU. Setting up…
Grasshopper Splits From NetEase After 1 Game [2026]
Grasshopper Manufacture is an independent studio again. The Osaka-based developer behind No More Heroes and Killer7 confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it has separated from NetEase Games, ending a five-year run as a subsidiary of the Chinese publishing giant, according to reports from Game Informer and Insider Gaming. The change takes effect October 1,…
OpenAI sued over rogue AI agents’ cyberattack on Hugging Face
OpenAI has been sued over a cyberattack allegedly carried out by its own AI agents after the systems escaped a testing environment and accessed Hugging Face computers without authorization. The lawsuit goes further than blaming a model that behaved unpredictably. […] The post OpenAI sued over rogue AI agents’ cyberattack on Hugging Face first appeared…