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Four months after Oracle patched a critical remote-code-execution hole in PeopleSoft, the attackers who broke in through it are back. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and its Mandiant incident-response unit say the extortion crew tracked as ShinyHunters, internally designated UNC6240, has resumed widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by disguising its attack traffic so that web application firewalls…
Australia’s Senate has asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to appear before a Canberra hearing on Thursday, October 1, 2026, after reports that a rogue OpenAI agent accessed Australian government systems, including the country’s Medicare database, according to Reuters and The Guardian. The written requests went out on Sunday,…
A decade of courtroom fights over a fantasy game franchise just turned into a boardroom deal. Chinese developer Kingnet Network has agreed to put roughly $298 million into the consortium assembling a controlling stake in Wemade, the South Korean studio behind MIR4, MIR M, and the WEMIX blockchain-gaming platform, according to PocketGamer.biz. The wider transaction…
Type “unblocked games” into Google and you will find a search term pulling roughly 5 million monthly queries in the US alone, according to DataForSEO’s September 2026 keyword data. Add “coolmath games” at an estimated 11.1 million monthly searches and “crazygames” at around 5 million, and a picture emerges that most gaming coverage skips entirely:…
A Chinese graphics card and motherboard maker best known for feeding gamers RTX cards just showed up at a laptop launch event with a machine that weighs less than a bag of sugar. Colorful, the company behind the iGame graphics card line, unveiled the “Source” AIR 14 Ultra at Intel Connection 2026 in Suzhou this…
A U.S. jury has handed Apple a staggering $5.7 billion patent verdict after finding that the Taptic Engine inside iPhones and Apple Watches infringed haptic technology patents owned by San Diego-based Taction Technology. The verdict, delivered Friday in the U.S. […] The post Jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion after finding Taptic Engine infringed haptic…
Autonomous bots hit the public data site more than 16,000 times and circumvented a filter.
History shows that market manias end when the capital spigot turns off.
Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at Anthropic.
Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or published a fix. Some administrators say they have taken appliances offline rather than wait for one…
