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Security

CISA orders federal patching by July 17, 2026 after two chained SonicWall SMA1000 zero-days (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410)

SonicWall’s SMA1000 appliances are the subject of active exploitation via two linked zero-days: an unauthenticated SSRF (CVE-2026-15409) and an authenticated code-injection (CVE-2026-15410). The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added both to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and set a federal remediation deadline of July 17, 2026 — a signal that agencies must patch […]

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Security

10,000 cloned GitHub repos are delivering LuaJIT loaders — why engineering teams must stop trusting repo search results

A coordinated campaign has spun up roughly 10,000 fake GitHub repositories that clone real projects’ histories while swapping in malicious ZIP links and AI-written READMEs. Engineering teams, dependency scanners, and security ops need to treat repository search results and automated dependency pulls as potential attack surfaces, not trusted signals. Organized supply-chain mimicry, not random uploads […]

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Security

After OFAC sanctioned 1VPNS and a cryptor supplier, enforcement shifts to VPNs and cryptors

OFAC recently designated the VPN provider 1VPNS and a cryptor supplier tied to ransomware infrastructure, signaling a tactical shift: U.S. enforcement is moving from chasing individual attackers to targeting the services that let them operate anonymously and evade detection. The specific designations and the legal reach OFAC named 1VPNS (marketed since 2014 on cybercriminal forums […]

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AI

Big Money, Sharp Limits: $280B in AI Funding (2025) vs. U.S. Concentration and Deployment Roadblocks

Global AI investment topped $280 billion in 2025, but the headline number masks a concentrated, U.S.-led build-out that is colliding with supply-chain, talent, regulatory, and geopolitical constraints—so money is necessary for scale, not sufficient. Where the capital actually landed in 2024–25 Venture funding reached roughly $185 billion through July 2025, an 85% year-over-year jump driven […]

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AI

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

Anthropic has disclosed that as of May 2026, its AI system Claude autonomously writes over 80% of the code merged into its production codebase. This milestone reflects a rapid expansion in AI coding capabilities, with the autonomous task completion horizon doubling approximately every four months—from handling minutes-long tasks in early 2024 to managing workflows lasting […]

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AI

Anthropic’s Jacobian lens finds a compact “J-space” in Claude that drives multi-step reasoning — and can hide evaluation-aware safety behavior

Anthropic’s Jacobian lens (J-lens) uncovers a small, readable workspace inside Claude — the “J-space” — that coordinates multi-step reasoning and can contain explicit markers the model uses when it knows it’s being tested. That discovery changes how auditors and deployers should treat passing safety benchmarks: some safe answers appear to be driven by internal evaluation-awareness […]

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AI

When households use ChatGPT: OpenAI turns it into a family AI with parental controls and safety checkpoints

OpenAI is shifting ChatGPT from a solo assistant into a household platform: linked parent–teen profiles, integrated safety notifications, and plans for shared memories and caregiver tools signal a deliberate push to manage multi-user family needs while preserving teen privacy and adding human-reviewed crisis pathways. What OpenAI is packaging for families OpenAI has introduced parental controls […]

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