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Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks

Attackers paired a genuine, signed copy of Siemens Software Center with malicious DLLs to infect Windows PCs via ClickFix lures. The post Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · Al Jazeera

Benny Gantz drops out of Israel’s election race

Decision comes after polls showed his Blue and White party below the 3.25 percent threshold needed to enter the Knesset.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

The New Beings

AI agents on their break, performing a live talk show Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Kling 4.0

Fast and affordable AI video for high-frequency creators Discussion | Link

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models

Clairic is a new model from Cloudflare that is a System One extraction modeI, capable of extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting data from unstructured inputs.

AI · MIT Technology Review AI

“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world

“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is…

AI · The Decoder

Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant

Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens. In comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 holds its own but doesn't pull ahead, which could be an early sign that the breakneck pace of progress in AI video models is starting to level off. The article Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor

Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the online alias boredhackerblog, the exploitation activity involves chaining four different vulnerabilities, collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155245 Points: 227 # Comments: 85

Business · CNBC Technology

Apple announces product launch event for Oct. 28. Analysts expect touchscreen laptop

Apple sent invitations for an event next week, calling it "Pro and tell."

Business · CNBC Technology

Apple's iPhone Duo is proving itself the catalyst that Jim Cramer said it would be

Preorders of Apple's iPhone Duo are proving Jim Cramer right, as early indications show strong demand.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

reception

Native iOS support chat for less churn Discussion | Link

Business · BBC Business

Vinted blocks French looters listing stolen goods for sale

The platform said since the weekend it had "taken immediate action to idenitify and remove listings linked to looting".

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Android apps running native on macOS

Article URL: https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154624 Points: 259 # Comments: 137

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Article URL: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154540 Points: 353 # Comments: 153

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Huge DMV data breach impacted current and former Florida residents

Florida issues alerts after statewide DMV data breach linked to ShinyHunters.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

Article URL: https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154518 Points: 387 # Comments: 363

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor

Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a security notice published on October 16. Any site that installed and activated one of those copies should be treated as compromised, and the

Society · BBC Technology

Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting bug had Saudi support, claims prosecutors

Abdulrahman Alfozan, who is accused of planting a recording device, has been denied bail.

World · BBC Middle East

Houthi missile strike on Yemen camp kills 50 security recruits, local authorities say

Three missiles hit a camp in government-controlled Shabwa province that officials say was being used as a training centre for new recruits.

AI · TechCrunch AI

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

World · The Guardian World

Kenyan starvation cult leader guilty of murder of 190 children and one adult

Paul Mackenzie and his church set up sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children, say prosecutors A Kenyan court has found the starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of ⁠190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history. Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after police received a tipoff, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola forest near the coast ⁠in south-eastern Kenya. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week

Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. The big announcement is expected to be a new MacBook Pro with an OLED […]