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I can't believe this moment in time is real.
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First, Donald Trump sided with his billionaire Big Tech buddies and endorsed the AI regulation moratorium. Now, MAGA Republicans are trying to sneak it into the defense bill. Democrats must stand up to this all-out attack on AI regulation.
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)

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JPM DESK: “Folks asking why $AMD US Equity underperforming .. it seems the most obvious, speculative AI compute name to sell if you're worried about capital drying up. But I wonder if it also has something to do with a competitor note .. saying that META is now overspending speculatively on AGI ..”
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The npm portal has revamped its user authentication tokens.

New tokens will have a default life of seven days (instead of 30), which can be updated to a maximum lifespan of 90 days (previously unlimited).

The changes are going live this month.

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World models for AI are exactly the thing that AR and VR have been working on building.
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What makes an effective Secret Scanning solution

How Can Organizations Achieve Robust Cybersecurity with Effective Secret Scanning Solutions? Where cyber threats consistently challenge organizations, the focus on securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) has become critical. NHIs, ess…
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- DataBreachToday – 2025 Edition | Generative AI Study: Securing the GenAI Era. Discover how data, security, and governance teams are confronting the risks of GenAI. As generative AI reshapes security operations, organizations are under pressure to innovat... https://tinyurl.com/29455u6s #AISecurity
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a couple weeks of AI-executed coding and i can feel the subtle reflex to figure out how to phrase my tasks to get something else to do them for me. i see how people fall all the way into this stuff
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WeatherNext 2 introduces an advanced AI model that offers more efficient, accurate, and high-resolution global weather predictions.

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This is one benchmark you won't want to top - devious ransomware will test your system to see how easy it is to hack #cybersecurity #internet #iot
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" .. more data storage systems now count as critical infrastructure, telcos face tougher security standards .. serious incidents must be reported. As part of changes .. required to begin an intendent review into SOCI by no later than 1 November 2025." www.innovationaus.com/cybersecurit...
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Cloudflare suffered a major outage from 6:20 to 9:42 AM ET after an automatically generated threat-management configuration file exceeded expected size and a latent bug crashed bot-mitigation software, knocking offline sites including X and ChatGPT, and ironically Downdetector
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Are current IAM solutions capable of handling NHIs effectively

Can Your IAM Solutions Handle Non-Human Identities Efficiently? Where organizations are increasingly relying on digital frameworks, the role of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) has become pivotal, especially in cloud envir…
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Microsoft added experimental agentic features and Copilot Actions to a Windows 11 Insider build and said it will isolate agents in separate user accounts, require user approval for data access, and provide observable activity logs to mitigate "novel security risks."
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I just starred github/copilot-cli on GitHub:
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It would be interesting to know how much Palantir equity the author here (an ex-Palantir exec) currently holds while urging the democrats to be nicer to Palantir

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Struggling with prolonged disaster recovery and data security threats? Druva offers rapid ransomware recovery with cloud-native, fully managed SaaS platform. Simplify data protection and boost cyber resilience today.
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Learn why security is a continuous practice, not a one-time project. Build daily habits, use smart tools, and strengthen your security posture. #security
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We are hiring! @mqsois.bsky.social is currently recruiting a full time, ongoing Lecturer Level B in Cyber Security and Cyber Intelligence. This is a Teaching & Leadership position and could be a great opportunity for an early career academic. More info here: www.seek.com.au/job/88616507
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📚 Remote Code Execution in UniFi Access (CVE-2025-52665)

Writeup of the recently found critical RCE vulnerability in Ubiquiti UniFi Access.

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I'm a video game character, complete with my theatre blacks, headset, and prompt book! Check me out in this year's SANS Holiday Hack Challenge at SANS.org/holidayhack
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the benchmarks don't matter gemini 3 pro is too eager on fixing problems it does not understand
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But the company isn't turning the AI feature on by default because there's a risk of it downloading and installing malware.

Oh boy, this is going to work out well, isn't AI great!

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Unrelated to today’s outage, I found out that one of the defensive tools that Cloudflare is developing to combat malicious web crawlers, has a wonderfully ominous name…

“The AI LABYRINTH.”

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Google announced so many interesting things with Gemini 3 that I’m going to look like a paid shill by the time I’m done writing about them.

No wonder Apple took one look at this and threw in the towel upgrading Siri. That Apple essentially gets this for free is the deal of the century.
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A groundbreaking study shows automated prompt optimization boosts vision-language model performance on medical imaging tasks by up to 3,400% without retraining. This innovation enhances clinical deployment, increasing diagnostic accuracy while ensuring data privacy.
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Google’s Gemini 3 Pro will be able to create custom UI’s on the fly tailored to your prompt. Complex UIs like a custom photo slideshow or fractals are generated on the fly from prompts.

This is quite impressive. Amazing even.
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Thank you to the more than 700 students who joined me and the “Godfather of AI,” Nobel Prize winner Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

We must ask ourselves: Will AI benefit all of us? Or just the billionaires?
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A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)

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As AI grows, companies like IREN shift from bitcoin mining to AI. Is this the future of tech investment? #AIFuture
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I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

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Gemini 3 performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.
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You shouldn't have to be a tech genius to be safe and secure online.
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The privacy panic around machine learning is overblown

We often hear warnings about how machine learning (ML) models may expose sensitive information tied to their training data. The concern is understandable. If a model was trained on personal records, it may seem reasonable…
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Google Chrome V8 “type-confusion” zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-13223 & CVE-2025-13224)

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/142232/

On 17 November 2025, Google released an out-of-cycle security update for Chrome to address two high-severity flaws in…
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Google launches Gemini 3 as latest move in AI race
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Agentic AI puts defenders on a tighter timeline to adapt

Security teams know that attackers rarely wait for defenders to be ready. The latest AI Maturity in Cybersecurity Report from Arkose Labs shows how quickly the threat landscape is shifting and how slowly organizations can r…
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Google Chrome V8 “type-confusion” zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-13223 & CVE-2025-13224)



On 17 November 2025, Google relea
sed an out-of-cycle security update for Chrome to address two high-severity flaws in…
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The Cognitive Edge Revolution: How AI-Powered Networks Are Creating the Next Frontier for Cyber Attacks

Introduction: The convergence of artificial intelligence, edge computing, and network infrastructure is forging a new paradigm: the cognitive network. These self-optimizing, intelligent systems…
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FREE Framer Templates for a Limited Time

Top security firms switched to Axionet for enterprise-level design.

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📚 Exploiting Citrix NetScaler CVE-2025-12101

Memory leak vulnerability combined with reflected XSS in Citrix NetScaler appliances.

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🚨 New in @ConversationCA: Shadow AI is quietly putting Canada’s digital health system at risk.
Clinicians using public AI tools for notes + translations may be unknowingly leaking patient data outside secure networks.
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Prompt Profits Mastery – How to Make Money Selling AI Prompts (Full 2025 Guide)

Unlock your earning potential with Prompt Profits Mastery 2025 — a practical step-by-step guide that teaches you how to create and sell high-demand AI prompts on platforms like PromptBase, Etsy, and Ko-fi. Perfect for…
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Boost your cyber defense with unified cybersecurity and GRC strategies

Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue; it is a strategic imperative that touches every aspect of modern business. In today’s digital landscape, organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats that …
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Australians are being warned about a new scam in which criminals pose as federal police officers and pressure victims into handing over their cryptocurrency.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the scheme is spreading fast – and it’s catching people off guard.

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Agentic workflows are now enabled by interoperability standards like MCP. So, an #LLM can query a #SIEM, gather logs, analyze trends & propose next steps. This enables #security teams to streamline repetitive tasks & more. Learn all about the benefits. 💡

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Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters • The Register



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g internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating…
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Reliance Jio is removing age restrictions for its free 18 month Google AI Pro plan in India. You just need to have any of the eligible 5G unlimited plans.
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Dr. Richard Zhao from NSFOCUS Selected into 2025 Top 10 Cybersecurity Professionals by Leading Consulting Company

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 18, 2025 — International Data Corporation (IDC) officially released the “2025 IDC China Top 10 Cybersecurity Professionals” at the 10th IDC C…
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