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Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug

Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday's massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more d...

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How Jimothy the raccoon became the internet's latest animal obsession

It all began with an innocuous video shared by Seattle resident Kiana Hall on Instagram. ...

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Chick-fil-A data breach affects more than 13,000 customers

Chick-fil-A has confirmed that over 13,000 customers had their accounts breached in a wave of credential stuffing attacks targeting its website and mo...

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Slopsquatting, Phantom Domains, and HalluSquatting Are the Same AI Attack

Slopsquatting, phantom squatting, and HalluSquatting all exploit the same late-binding attack pattern, where AI coding agents trust hallucinated packa...

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Vatican's Official Prayer App Leaks 700K+ Global Users' PII

A porous API endpoint exposes, names, email addresses, country, and site status, all of which can be easily gleaned by anyone with a browser....

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Europol flags 4,340 URLs for removal in 'The Com' crackdown

Europol has flagged 4,340 URLs for removal during a multi-week operation targeting online content linked to "The Com," a loosely organized network of ...

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Default Azure Automation Setting Enables Cross-Tenant Identity Takeover

Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's...

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Why AI Needs a β€œGenie Coefficient”

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum. Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether i...

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Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. T...

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Microsoft explains why its West US Azure and cloud services failed

Microsoft cloud and Azure services hosted on the West Coast of the US went down for hours on Thursday when network connectivity...

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Email threats changed after the Tycoon2FA take-down

Traditional phishing techniques are in decline as a result of the disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) pla...

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Google fined $1 billion for anticompetitive search and mobile app practices in EU

The European Commission has fined Google a total of €890 million ($1 billion) for its breaches of the Digital Market Act (DMA...

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