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Arcee’s 400B “Trinity” proves frontier open models don’t require billion‑dollar labs

Arcee, a 26‑person U.S. startup, has shipped Trinity Large Thinking — a 400B-parameter, Mixture‑of‑Experts model released under Apache 2.0 — positioning a geopolitically sovereign, commercially usable alternative to proprietary and Chinese-built AI. Trinity’s design, training choices, and U.S.-based infrastructure partnership intentionally challenge the idea that only the biggest AI labs can produce competitive, deployable frontier […]

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Home routers vs. cloud defenses: How APT28 pairs mass DNS hijacks with stealth Microsoft 365 token theft

APT28 (Fancy Bear, GRU Unit 26165) has shifted from classic phishing and malware to a hybrid approach that begins on compromised home and SOHO routers and finishes inside Microsoft 365 environments—using DNS hijacking and a cloud-native malware toolkit called “AUTHENTIC ANTICS” to steal OAuth tokens and live cloud content. That contrast—network infrastructure compromise at the […]

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Agentic AI isn’t a plug‑in: scale comes from zero‑based process redesign and modern infrastructure

Agentic AI can automate workflows that traditional automation could not—but only when enterprises rebuild processes and infrastructure around autonomous agents instead of tacking agents onto legacy flows. Layering agents on old systems often produces fragile, expensive projects; Gartner predicts more than 40% of agentic AI initiatives will fail by 2027 because of integration and data‑architecture […]

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German authorities identify REvil and GandCrab ransomware bosses

German authorities have publicly identified Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian national, as the elusive hacker known as “UNKN,” who led the GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups responsible for at least 130 attacks targeting German companies between 2019 and 2021. Alongside Shchukin, 43-year-old Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk was also named as a co-leader in these operations. […]

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Signal: AI is reshaping tasks, not collapsing U.S. jobs — 30% automatable by 2030 but no economy-wide disruption yet

Early, concrete signals point to a redistribution of work rather than mass job loss: studies estimate roughly 30% of U.S. jobs could be automated by 2030 and 60% will see major task changes, yet analyses through 33 months after ChatGPT’s arrival show no measurable, economy-wide employment collapse. Where disruption is concentrated now The strongest risk […]

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Zero Shot’s first signal: ex‑OpenAI engineers will back applied AI and steer clear of vibe coding, digital twins, and shaky robotics data

Zero Shot, a new VC launched by former OpenAI engineers, has quietly closed $20 million toward a $100 million target and is sending a single clear market signal: deployable, revenue‑adjacent AI gets priority; “vibe” ideas and speculative foundational plays do not. A technical gatekeeper not a hype fund Founding partners Evan Morikawa (ex‑head of applied […]

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After a $130M Series B and L3Harris deal, Xoople is embedding AI-ready Earth data into Microsoft and Esri before its satellites fly

Xoople has just closed a $130 million Series B and signed a manufacturing partnership with L3Harris to accelerate an AI-optimized Earth observation system that it says will be embedded into enterprise platforms such as Microsoft and Esri ahead of its own satellite launches. The company moved out of stealth after seven years and plans commercialization […]

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Don’t Treat QR-Code Traffic-Fine Texts as Minor Spam — Reused case “26-TR-273196” Reveals a Nationwide ID‑theft Scheme

In early April 2026 a large-scale phishing campaign began pushing QR codes in fake traffic–violation texts across the U.S., not just isolated nuisance messages. The repeated use of the fake case number “26-TR-273196” — seen with state prefixes like CO, NJ, IL, TX, MN and TN — makes clear this is a volume-driven, adaptive scam […]

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Not in axios’s source — a hijacked maintainer account pushed a phantom dependency that installed a cross‑platform RAT

On March 31, 2026, attackers used a hijacked npm maintainer account to publish poisoned axios releases that exercised npm’s install lifecycle, not by altering axios source code but by adding a phantom dependency (plain-crypto-js@4.2.1) whose postinstall hook deployed a cross‑platform remote access trojan (RAT). The publication used stolen long‑lived npm tokens to bypass GitHub Actions […]

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