This week’s cyber recap covers AI risks, supply-chain attacks, major breaches, DDoS spikes, and critical vulnerabilities security teams must track.

My menus used to hesitate like they were thinking about it. One tweak fixed that.

Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) offer flexible object detection through natural language prompts but suffer from performance variability depending on prompt phrasing. In this paper, we ...

If your loose measuring cups are causing chaos in your kitchen drawers, try this simple hack that will keep them in order ...

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the ...

Agentic AI tools like OpenClaw promise powerful automation, but a single email was enough to hijack my dangerously obedient ...

We were talking on the podcast about rope. But not just any rope – especially non-stretchy rope for using in a mechanical context. The hack in question was a bicycle wheel that swapped out normal ...

In other words, you can treat it like an actual employee, discuss your goals and so on, and set it up in a way as to be ...

Weeks before the 2024 election, American military hackers carried out a secret operation to disrupt the work of Russian trolls spewing false information at US voters.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) The darkness that ...