AI Sandbox Escapes: Why Forensic Readiness Matters More Than Containment
When autonomous AI agents "escape the sandbox," the real story isn’t rogue machines — it’s the same access-control failures we’ve seen for decades.
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What We Missed: Google Gemini Joins the AI Escape Party
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.
Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process
Training human-resource managers in the latest tactics and warning signs goes a long way toward blunting the threat, but automated analysis can help even more.
Wisconsin Joins $2.3M Labcorp Settlement, 16,615 Hit [2026]
Wisconsin has signed on to a 44-state settlement with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, better known as Labcorp, closing the book on a 2019 data breach that exposed medical and financial records tied to more than 27.5 million people nationwide. State officials confirmed on September 24-25, 2026, that Wisconsin joins a coalition led by New…
Best Code Editor 2026: VS Code vs Cursor vs Zed in 11 Steps
Picking the best code editor in 2026 is no longer about syntax highlighting and a fast file tree. It is about how well an editor handles an AI agent that can read your whole repository, propose a multi-file refactor, and run your test suite before you have finished your coffee. Four editors keep coming up…
Castlevania Turns 40: Free Game, Oct. 15 Sequel [2026]
Konami is celebrating Castlevania’s 40th anniversary the way most publishers wish they could: by giving the original game away. As of September 25, 2026, the 1986 NES classic is free to download on iOS and Android under the name Castlevania 40th Anniversary, according to reports from Video Games Chronicle and iPhone in Canada. The promotion…
Zelda Switch 2 Photos Reveal Gold Design, $519.99 Price [2026]
New in-person photos of the Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition surfaced on September 25, 2026, giving the public its clearest look yet at the console’s gold-trimmed design. VICE reported that the images, sourced from Japanese gaming account Genki after an in-person preview, confirm details that fans had only…
GoPhish Setup: Run a Phishing Simulation in 13 Steps [2026]
Security teams keep running the same experiment: send a fake phishing email, count who clicks, then try to lower that number. The open-source tool most of them reach for is GoPhish, a self-hosted phishing simulation framework that has sat near the top of GitHub’s phishing-tools list for years and now carries roughly 14,200 stars on…
Prediction: Arm Sees 83% Upside on Data Center Boom [2026]
Arm Holdings just got the boldest price call of its life. On September 24, 2026, 24/7 Wall St. named the British chip-design company its top pick, setting a $612 price target against a reference price of $326.62 — an implied 83.67% upside — and slapping a Buy rating on it with what the firm called…
LG Gaming Portal Setup: 900+ Free Games in 13 Steps [2026]
LG’s Gaming Portal has quietly become one of the easier ways to stream games on a television without buying a console, and September 2026 gave it two fresh reasons to matter: a new ad-supported free service called PHYND rolled onto LG TVs on July 24, 2026, and LG followed up on August 26 with a…