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Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests

The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans (RATs) developed using Node.js and JavaScript. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky is tracking the

AI · The Decoder

Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still apply, Google left open. The article Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides appeared first on The Decoder .

Society · The Guardian Society

Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lottery Seriously ill children are being denied the chance to die at home because the NHS in many parts of England is flouting its legal duty to provide the care needed to make that happen, critics say. The widespread failure to provide at-home end-of-life care is forcing children who want to die at home to instead do so in hospital. Campaigners have described it as “cruel”. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones

We're not even half a day into September, and two new smartphones have already launched: the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra. We're expecting more this week, as the IFA trade show kicks off in Berlin, before we get new iPhones a week after that. And that's only the beginning of what promises to be […]

AI · OpenAI News

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.

AI · The Decoder

Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time

AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of running code, the system generates the user interface frame by frame as you interact with it. The article Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time appeared first on The Decoder .

World · Deutsche Welle

Will Bangladesh join the Mecca defense pact?

While Bangladesh is weighing the risks of joining the Mecca mutual defense alliance, experts warn that any move to join the pact could complicate relations with neighboring India.

AI · The Decoder

Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook

"Please get to a safe place or call emergency services": That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani. The article Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars

Forescout researchers used Claude AI to port a remote code execution exploit between WAGO PLC models. The post Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Business · CNBC Technology

Apple's new CEO, G20 meetings continue, the FTC sues Amazon and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

World · Deutsche Welle

Norway's new King Haakon VIII takes oath in parliament

The new king swore to uphold the constitution in parliament in Oslo, the first major institutional step of his reign. Haakon VIII's wife Queen Mette-Marit had to skip the event in the aftermath of her lung transplant.

World · Al Jazeera

Pakistan wins Indus waters battle at The Hague, but India threat remains

The Permanent Court of Arbitration says the treaty remains binding. But India has rejected the findings.

World · Al Jazeera

Pakistan urged to declare femicide emergency amid surge in killings

The brutal killing of Pakistani media professional Hina Javed has caused uproar over violence against women.

World · Al Jazeera

DRC: Ebola fears grow as children return to school

Parents fear school could fuel Ebola spread as authorities shift high-risk pupils to home learning.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2026-0768, the security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary Python code remotely. The post Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

JBL takes on Sonos with new multi-room Cove speakers

JBL is well known for its portable bluetooth and party speakers, but now it's also stepping into the world of connected whole-home audio. The JBL Cove series of speakers introduced today can work independently, as a stereo pair, or linked together to form a multi-room sound system, placing the range in competition with Sonos and […]

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

The Grails Plugin Has a New Home: Apache Grails

The Grails plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (which provides framework-aware coding assistance, GSP tooling, and GORM integration) has moved to the Apache Grails project. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which already stewards the Grails framework, now owns the plugin’s source code, which lives in its new GitHub repository. On JetBrains Marketplace, the plugin is listed as […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

IFA 2026: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

Every year over 200,000 people descend on Berlin for IFA, the largest tech trade show in Europe. Some of the world’s biggest manufacturers turn up to demo everything from appliances to smartphones to smart home gadgets, and this year should be no different. IFA itself runs from September 4th to 8th, but most of the […]

World · Al Jazeera

Damascus goes car-free for 24 hours

Damascus’ Old City went car-free for 24 hours, giving residents a rare chance to walk its streets without traffic.

World · Deutsche Welle

Germany's SPD is fighting for survival

The Social Democratic Party SPD is sinking ever deeper into crisis. Voters are turning away, while unrest is growing within its grassroots ranks. Will the upcoming state elections accelerate the party's downward spiral?

World · Al Jazeera

‘Hit them hard’: Does Trump have another ‘new’ Iran strategy, can it work?

Trump signals harsher response as US-Iran hostilities escalate, raising fears of prolonged conflict in the Gulf region.

Cloud & Infrastructure · CNCF Blog

Platform engineering maturity: From toolchain to self-service

Most platform engineering conversations tend to split into two rooms pretty quickly. The first room is full of teams who don’t have a platform yet. Scattered scripts, tribal knowledge, and every team is doing the same...

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting