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Hours after DeepSeek pushed its new V4.1 Flash model to HuggingFace under an MIT license on September 10, 2026, independent developers had already stripped its safety layers and uploaded “abliterated” and “uncensored” forks to the same platform. By September 13, at least two separate community builds were live and drawing steady download traffic, according to…
A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service. The extension, named “Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot,” lists HISHIMIRO/jeetbot.cc as its developer and has the following identifiers on the Google Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Firefox Add-Ons store -…
Amazon S3 buckets accumulate sensitive data fast, and most security teams find out where PII, credentials, and financial records are actually sitting only after an audit, a breach, or a compliance deadline forces the question. Amazon Macie exists to answer it proactively. It is AWS’s managed service for discovering, classifying, and monitoring sensitive data across…
Microsoft has spent 2026 doing something it has never done before a console launch: talking about the next Xbox in public, in pieces, for six months straight. The project has a name, Project Helix, a chip partner, AMD, and a phrase that has replaced “next Xbox” in every Microsoft slide deck since Gamescom 2026: “family…
A PS5 game just booted on a Steam Deck without a network connection doing the work. On August 13, 2026, an open-source project called SharpEmu got Astro’s Playroom, the platformer bundled with every PlayStation 5, running locally on Valve’s handheld through the PlayStation Studios splash screen and into its loading sequence. The frame rate hovered…
Security operations centers spent 2025 experimenting with AI copilots. By September 2026, the experiment is over and a new product category has hardened: the AI SOC analyst platform, software that does not just summarize an alert but plans an investigation, queries the SIEM and EDR itself, and returns a verdict with cited evidence. Three vendors…
A threat actor spent roughly a week in late August 2026 doing almost nothing by hand. Instead, hundreds of autonomous AI agents did the scanning, the exploit-building, the breaking-in, and much of the follow-up looting across 395 organizations in 48 countries. Security researchers had warned for years that this moment was coming. According to Help…
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that a single police employee’s login credentials opened the door to a breach of its DAVID driver database, according to a September 11, 2026 statement from the agency and reporting by Tampa Bay 28. The outlet identified the source of the compromised access…
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as…
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
