ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave […]
Month: August 2026
Lego’s supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope yet – a model built at approximately minifig scale that dwarfs the […]
1.6M RingCentral accounts’ data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone numbers, […]
DeepSeek’s innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in
DeepSeek has piqued the interest of the developer community by releasing an early version of its open source agent harness. […]
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words
In an effort to “watermark” text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic unveiled a […]
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
President Trump has ordered the US Navy to draw up plans to replace electromagnetic aircraft catapults and weapons elevators with […]
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Sanctions and Nvidia’s exit from Russia in 2022 haven’t stopped its Jetson Orin hardware from turning up in Russian weaponry, […]
Virgin Galactic flights stay grounded while ticket prices head for the Moon
Virgin Galactic has delayed its return to commercial spaceflight until February 2027, and plans to raise ticket prices later this […]
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
France’s tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal […]
TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
TalkTalk Business and UK technology services biz ARO plan to merge, creating what they say will be one of the […]