Russia hits Ukrainian security headquarters in drone attack, Zelensky says
The unmanned aerial vehicle struck without warning in the heart of the Ukrainian capital.
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Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s security services HQ is a ‘major escalation’, says Ukraine’s foreign minister – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt Polls have suggested that the election on Sunday could yield Germany’s first-ever state government led by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), shattering a postwar taboo and leaving minorities’ fate in the hands of a party that has promised to launch deportations “from day one”. Continue reading...
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The
Russia strikes Ukraine intelligence HQ in ‘major escalation’
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has told SBU to deliver ‘appropriate, tangible response’ to Kyiv strike The head office of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency has been hit in a Russian drone attack, sending plumes of black smoke rising into the air in the heart of Kyiv. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he had instructed the SBU to deliver an “appropriate, tangible response” to the strike, while the foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, described it as a “major escalation”. Continue reading...
OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3
Investor Matt Turck, whose fantastic podcast has hosted the people who built ARC-AGI, summed up Astra’s blockbuster benchmarks with three The post OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 appeared first on The New Stack .
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are
OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims
OpenAI said it could not "meaningfully respond" to the report's findings because it hadn't been allowed to review it ahead of publication.
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and
Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming
Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.
Back-to-school shopping brought to you by AI — how Amazon, Google are positioned to win
The rise of AI-assisted shopping during this year's back-to-school season may be an early window into evolving consumer buying habits.
Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek wants to put 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips into an Inner Mongolia data center for inference only, not training. It would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. But production bottlenecks mean Huawei probably can't deliver for over a year. The article Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia appeared first on The Decoder .
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AI agent evaluations are part of the product
A team builds an agent, gives it a few representative questions in a test chat, and watches it produce useful The post AI agent evaluations are part of the product appeared first on The New Stack .
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at midnight PT.
Chrome Dev for Android Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 155 (155.0.8040.0) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026. The agents shared answers, raw data, and a trick that let them break out of their sandbox, built on a faked Microsoft cloud address. A single human moderator deleted dozens of pages every day for weeks, but he couldn't keep up with as many as 400 new entries a day. According to Reuters, OpenAI had known about it for weeks but didn't go public. The article OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits appeared first on The Decoder .
Sangoma Switchvox Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Tracked as CVE-2026-9586, the unauthenticated SQL injection flaw can be exploited remotely for arbitrary code execution. The post Sangoma Switchvox Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover
Dubbed PostGREShell, CVE-2026-6471 turns low-level replication access into code execution, permanent superuser privileges and a persistent database backdoor. The post 12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek .
“1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things
Coder announced its Coder Agent Relay service this week, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. The service lets software engineering The post “1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things appeared first on The New Stack .
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
Article URL: https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563386 Points: 327 # Comments: 65
Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails
Catch promises the capabilities of a trusted executive assistant, with built-in controls governing what data and systems it can access. The post Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Points: 1131 # Comments: 907