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Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings
Cupertino-based facial recognition security startup Alcatraz said today it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by BlackPeak Capital, Cogito Capital and Taiwania Capital. Previous investors Almaz Capital, EBRD and Ray Stata also participated…
This new 'laughing rat' malware will steal your data and hack your systems — and then laugh at you while doing it
CrystalX RAT comes with a handful of prankware, allowing hackers to tease their victims as they steal their data.
New Quanscient and Haiqu algorithm targets scalable fluid simulations on quantum computers
Researchers from quantum computing companies Quanscient Oy and Haiqu Inc. today announced that they have developed a new quantum computing algorithm designed to make computational fluid dynamics simulations more practical on quantum hardware. Developed and te…
PenCom to deploy N28tn into infrastructure financing
Nigeria’s PenCom unveils a plan to use its N28tn asset base for infrastructure financing, aiming to boost economic growth and ensure sustainable returns. Read More: https://punchng.com/pencom-to-deploy-n28tn-into-infrastructure-financing/
Cloudflare debuts EmDash to challenge aging WordPress with AI-native CMS
24 years ago, two young coders launched a fork of the b2/cafelog log code called WordPress, a content management system for the then-emerging blogging world that over two decades later has grown into the most used CMS on the planet, with WordPress estimated t…
OpenAI acquires tech industry podcast TBPN
OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has acquired the company behind TBPN, a popular tech industry podcast. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to The Wall Street Journal, TBPN expects to generate more than $30 million in advertising reven…
Tech News Weekly 431: iPhone Hacking Tools Go Public
Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent this week! Meta is in dispute with the Motion Picture Association. Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code's source code. Apple is continuing to extend updates to those affected by the DarkSword exploit. And Meta & YouTube …
Mercer Advisors Data Breach Exposes Personal Information: Murphy Law Firm Investigates Legal Claims
Murphy Law Firm investigates claims on behalf of everyone whose information was exposed in the Mercer Advisors data breach....
What People Actually Want From AI
The artificial intelligence industry spends considerable energy debating what models can do. Anthropic asked a different question: What do people actually want them to do? The answer, drawn from 80,508 interviews across 159 countries and 70 languages, is more…
Russia Gets Apple to Turn Off App Store Payments
MacRumors (9to5Mac): In a new support document, Apple said new purchases, in-app purchases, and subscription renewals are no longer available in Russia unless a user already has funds in their Apple Account balance, which can continue to be used. […] Apple re…
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked | TechCrunch
The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.
What Is A Router? (And all things AI) - PSW #920
In the Security News: <ul> <li>Claude leaks source code and new models</li> <li>Two really smart people say AI is finding vulnerabilities better than ever</li> <li>Windows is using your internet to send updates to strangers</li> <li>BIG-IP APM vulnerability -…
Four security principles for agentic AI systems
Agentic AI represents a qualitative shift in how software operates. Traditional software executes deterministic instructions. Generative AI responds to human prompts with output that humans review and use at their discretion. Agentic AI differs from both. Age…
Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law
A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.
Microsoft launches new high-speed voice and image models
Microsoft Corp. today introduced a trio of artificial intelligence models optimized to process images and audio. The algorithms are available through Microsoft Foundry, an Azure service that developers can use to build AI applications. The tech giant has also…
Trump Is Waging War on Our Elections. These People Are Fighting Back.
Months before the midterm elections, President Trump once again is trying to take over voting in America, claiming power he doesn’t have. His latest executive order, which he signed on Tuesday, instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots un…
Intelligent threat detection: Your last layer of storage defense
Don't feel too pleased that you just completed your quarterly cybersecurity audit; today's attackers are moving faster than you are.
Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials
A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys,…
Anthropic Says Claude Code Leak Did Not Expose Customer Data
Anthropic has reportedly said no sensitive customer data was exposed in an accidental leak. “Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal source code. No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” the company said in a me…