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The tech oligarchs are squandering our finite natural resources so I can log on to Instagram and talk with an AI-generated chatbot named “A Literal Horse.”

(“Neigh,” it says, “neigh neighhh.”)
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Recent cases involving LinkedIn paint a portrait of an online data landscape being reshaped by technology, increasingly at speeds that challenge companies to keep up without clear legal guardrails.
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Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere

sources.news/p/whats-next...
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Have Yourself A Very Meta Christmas

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice —…
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2512.15603, cs․CV, 17 Dec 2025

🆕Qwen-Image-Layered: Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition

Shengming Yin, Zekai Zhang, Zecheng Tang, Kaiyuan Gao, Xiao Xu, Kun Yan, Jiahao Li, Yilei Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Heung-Yeung Shum, Lionel M. Ni, Jingre...
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1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Apple gave me access to this Mac Studio cluster to test RDMA over Thunderbolt, a new feature in macOS 26.2. The easiest way to test it is with Exo 1.0, an…
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米国CISAがシスコ、ソニックウォール、ASUSの脆弱性を既知の脆弱性カタログに追加

U.S. CISA adds Cisco, SonicWall, and ASUS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog #SecurityAffairs (Dec 18)

securityaffairs.com/185830/secur...
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9to5Mac より

Security Bite: This app tells you if your Mac’s webcam or mic was triggered while you were away
セキュリティビット: このアプリは、外出中にMacのウェブカメラまたはマイクがトリガーされたかどうかを教えてくれます
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Inside Singapore’s push to reinvent public service work with agentic AI -
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Private Certificate Authority 101: From Setup to Management

Introduction Security has become a primary focus in today’s world, which is dominated by computers and technology. Businesses are always on a quest to find better ways how secure their information and messages. Another i…
#hackernews #news
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What cybersecurity leaders are reading to stay ahead

If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas, books remain one of the simplest ways to spark curiosity and support someone’s growth. Whether the person on your list is exploring cybersecurity, AI, engineering, or career development…
#hackernews #news
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The noise is deafening. The old playbooks are hitting a wall.

For the last 12 months, I’ve been building an internal GTM OS (Basin::Nexus) to prove a simple thesis: Revenue is not math.

It is the echo of grace.

19k+ hits later, the protocol is validated.
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The soft underbelly of space isn’t in orbit, it’s on the ground

In this Help Net Security interview, Øystein Thorvaldsen, CISO at KSAT, discusses how adversaries view the ground segment as the practical way to reach space systems and why stations remain a focal point for security…
#hackernews #news
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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
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The #Firefox situation is absolutely infuriating. In the new #Mozillia CEO's announcement, he directly contradicts himself, still emphasizing trust, privacy, & control, but then confessing that the browser will have AI woven inescapably throughout.

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

It gets worse...
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1 Latvian, 1 Bulgarian crew member arrested on a ferry in the French port of Sête in a suspected Russian cyber op tasked with infecting the ship’s IT system. Such an op might endeavor to hop to French or other allied transport infrastructure. @johnleicesterap.bsky.social
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GPT-5's reported ability to detect vulnerabilities in code is a fascinating step. It blurs the line between AI as a creative tool and a critical security layer. The real test will be its integration into real-world dev workflows. #AI #DevSecOps #Innovation
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No DMARC record found: Fix this critical mistake

Seeing a "no DMARC record found" error for your domain? Learn what it means, how it exposes you to spoofing and BEC, and how to move safely to p=reject.
#hackernews #news
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This story is magnificent. The WSJ installed an AI powered vending machine to test. Then the journalists broke its brain

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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2026 Cyber Predictions: Accelerating AI, Data Sovereignty, and Architecture Rationalization

2026 marks a critical turning point for cybersecurity leaders as AI-driven threats, data sovereignty mandates, and hybrid infrastructure risks reshape the CISO agenda. Discover the strateg…
#hackernews #news
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Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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CVE-2025-11774 - Malicious Code Execution Vulnerability in the Software Keyboard Function of GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Mobile HMI, and MC Works64
CVE ID : CVE-2025-11774

Published : Dec. 19, 2025, 1:16 a.m. | 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

Description : Improper Neutralization o...
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The people who think AI is being helpful or useful in their lives are not likely to suddenly think something that's called by another name is a direct and equivalent substitute. I don't think general-purpose ("AGI") AI is either useful or possible, but they've been sold that rhetoric...
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670: Institutionally Inescapable
atp.fm/670

We all just wish our families would be more impressed by our TVs.
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I love how the cybersecurity community consensus on this story is generally that the company deserved getting compromised for being so abusive and intrusive to their workers. www.tomshardware.com/tech-ind...

Monitoring keystroke latency is an ADA complaint waiting to happen.
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Here's why I ditched ChatGPT and moved to local AI - Android Authority share.google/jmgXOp6zlygQ...

This is going to become more and more popular because you can use an open source model running on your local computer and you can trust it for perfect privacy.
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~Trendmicro~
A new survey finds cyber defenders' top AI-related risks are fraud and impersonation attacks.
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IOCs: (None identified)
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#AI #Cybersecurity #ThreatIntel
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Firefox 146.0.1 fixes two high risk security vulnerabilities Article URL: Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322253 ...


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INE Security Expands Across Middle East and Asia to Accelerate Cybersecurity Upskillin Cary, North Carolina, USA, December 18th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Growth in Egypt, UAE, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabi...

#Press #Release

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#INEsecurity announces continued significant expansion across the Middle East and Asia, capitalizing on major regional learning initiatives.

#Cybersecurity #NetworkSecurity
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Master Reinforcement Learning: Build Intelligent Systems That Learn, Adapt, and Optimize Automatically
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The latest update for #CultureAI includes "CultureAI Joins Microsoft's Agentic Launchpad: What This Means for the Future of #AI Usage Control" and "AI Browsers: A Security Nightmare Flipping the Board on Decades of Security Progress".

#Cybersecurity
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5 Hidden Costs Most Founders Overlook When Launching an NFT Marketplace

Building an NFT marketplace costs far more than development alone. Audits, security, legal compliance, infrastructure, and marketing often double the initial budget if not planned early.
#hackernews #news
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The latest update for #Datadog includes "From discovery to defense: Securing #APIs with Datadog App and API Protection" and "Troubleshooting Cilium network policies: Four common pitfalls".

#cybersecurity #DevOps
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🛡️ Security updates:

- php-8.3.29-1 (in the php:remi-8.3 module)
- php83-php-8.3.29-1 (in the php83 Software Collection)

www.php.net/releases/8_3...
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🛡️ Security updates:

- php-8.2.30-1 (in the php:remi-8.2 module)
- php82-php-8.2.30-1 (in the php82 Software Collection)

www.php.net/releases/8_2...
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🛡️ Security updates:

- php-8.4.16-1 (in the php:remi-8.4 module)
- php84-php-8.4.16-1 (in the php84 Software Collection)

www.php.net/releases/8_4...
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The latest update for #SECUDE includes "The 4 CAD file security measures AECO needs for IP protection" and "Get started with HaloSHARE in 3 steps".

#Cybersecurity #SAP
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🛡️ Security updates:

- php-8.5.1-1 (in the php:remi-8.5 module)
- php85-php-8.5.1-1 (in the php85 Software Collection)

www.php.net/releases/8_5...
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Red Hat Buys an AI Safety Company, Promises to Open Source Its Tech The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat. The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat.

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Here’s the finale of this week’s three-part Better Offline special NVIDIA series. I walk you through why there are millions of Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses, and why AI’s lack of any profits makes NVIDIA’s future dependent on debt.
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Group Policy abuse reveals China-aligned espionage group targeting governments

ESET Research has identified a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat group that uses Windows Group Policy to deploy malware and move through victim networks. The group, track…
#hackernews #news
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Ripan Kumar Kundu, Istiak Ahmed, Khaza Anuarul Hoque
PrivateXR: Defending Privacy Attacks in Extended Reality Through Explainable AI-Guided Differential Privacy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16851
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Xiao Li, Yue Li, Hao Wu, Yue Zhang, Yechao Zhang, Fengyuan Xu, Sheng Zhong
A Systematic Study of Code Obfuscation Against LLM-based Vulnerability Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16538
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It's refreshing to discover the US government's public services haven't been entirely dismantled and things like waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l... are still available.

(I didn't even know this existed. I searched for it on a whim and sure enough, it's data that's collected and easily available.)
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Zero Trust Architecture: Why “Trust No One” Is the Future of Security 🔐 In today’s world of cloud-native apps, remote teams, APIs, and microservices, the old security model just doesn’t ...

#security #cybersecurity #webdev #ai

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Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

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The latest update for #Tines includes "The strain of reactive infrastructure reliability" and "The secret to holiday resilience: offload the muckwork with intelligent workflows".

#cybersecurity #nocodesecurity #appsec
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China-Linked LongNosedGoblin APT Abuses Windows Group Policy for Silent Cyber-Espionage in Asia

Introduction: A Trusted Windows Feature Turned Into a Spy Tool Cyber-espionage campaigns rarely succeed by brute force alone. The most effective operations hide in plain sight, blending into normal…
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Deepfakes have quietly evolved into something much more systemic that companies are not prepared for. f-st.co/p2Xqugp
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Milton Nicol\'as Plasencia Palacios, Alexander Boudewijn, Sebastiano Saccani, Andrea Filippo Ferraris, Diana Sofronieva, Giuseppe D'Acquisto, ...
Empirical Evaluation of Structured Synthetic Data Privacy Metrics: Novel experimental framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16284
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extremely funny how many conversations are people who are being automated out of a job (software engineers) defending ai against people who are not (creatives)
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ESET Research has identified a China-aligned APT group, LongNosedGoblin, targeting Southeast Asian and Japanese government institutions using Windows Group Policy for malware deployment and lateral movement. Detected in 2024, their operations date back to September 2023.
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Min Geun Song, Gang Min Kim, Woonmin Kim, Yongsik Kim, Jeonghyun Sim, Sangbeom Park, Huy Kang Kim
Autoencoder-based Denoising Defense against Adversarial Attacks on Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16123
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Offering cheaper AI systems comes down to using cheaper electricity. On that, Saudi Arabia reckons it has the edge
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OpenMemory: Local persistent memory store for LLM applications including claude desktop, github copilot, codex, antigravity.
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Junming Fu, Jishen Zeng, Yi Jiang, Peiyu Zhuang, Baoying Chen, Siyu Lu, Jianquan Yang
Unveiling the Attribute Misbinding Threat in Identity-Preserving Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15818
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Gabriela Wojak, Ernest G\'orka, Micha{\l} \'Cwi\k{a}ka{\l}a, Dariusz Baran, Dariusz Re\'sko, Monika Wyrzykowska-Antkiewicz, Robert Marczuk, Marcin Agaci\'nski, Daniel Zawadzki, Jan Piwnik
Data Protection and Corporate Reputation Management in the Digital Era
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NHS England provider, DXS International, confirms a cyber attack as hackers claim data was stolen. Investigations are underway to determine the extent of the breach.
#CyberSecurity #NHS #DataBreach
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🛡️ BFF v4: Frontend Security Simplified

Frontend devs shouldn't handle tokens or refresh cycles. BFF keeps security on the server, eliminating XSS risks.

v4 adds multi-frontend support for operational sanity. Ditch the token burden entirely.

➡️ duende.link/bff4b0b
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Clop Ransomware Group Exploiting Gladinet CentreStack Servers to Steal Data The Clop ransomware group has launched a new data extortion campaign targeting Internet-facing Gladinet CentreStack file ...

#Cyber #Security #News #Threats #cyber #security #cyber #security #news

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CrowdSec’s Central API (CAPI) is a shared service used by all Security Engines. As usage grows, we’ve introduced rate limiting to keep CAPI reliable and responsive for everyone.

👉 Read the full article to understand how it works: www.crowdsec.net/blog/introdu...
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Junchi Lu, Xinke Li, Yuheng Liu, Qi Alfred Chen
Data-Chain Backdoor: Do You Trust Diffusion Models as Generative Data Supplier?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15769
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Jamal Al-Karaki, Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Rand Derar Mohammad Al Athamneh
PHANTOM: Progressive High-fidelity Adversarial Network for Threat Object Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15768
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Ziyu Chen, Yitong Shen, Jingzhe Zhang, Yao Zheng, Yili Ren, Xuyu Wang, Shiwen Mao, Hanqing Guo
A Survey on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Practical Systems: Security and Privacy Perspectives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15754
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Following pressure from Computer Weekly and forensic investigator, the Post Office has warned subpostmasters about Horizon defect potentially at large for over 20 years....
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Attacker takes over multisig minutes after creation, drains up to $40M slowly

Forensic analysis suggests an attacker took control of a whale’s multisig wallet minutes after creation and has been slowly draining funds since.
#crypto #news
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The rise of ultra-realistic AI face-swapping tools like Haotian is both fascinating and disturbing. This deepfake tech is now sophisticated enough to convincingly simulate live video chats - blurring the line between legitimate innovation and malicious exploitation.

WIRED's latest dive into how ...
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This is AMD's real response to Nvidia raising GPU prices and making them worse and selling less of them

Which is to say, they are helpless to the whims of the tech market once again, as AM4 will never go away

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Shaohua Wu, Tong Yu, Shenling Wang, Xudong Zhao
Yuan-TecSwin: A text conditioned Diffusion model with Swin-transformer blocks
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Servers at the Foreign Office have been hacked - with reports that Chinese hackers have accessed confidential data and information.
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