Security

How to know you’re a real-deal CSO — and whether that job opening truly seeks one

Recruiters of senior-level IT professionals often say that a truly skilled and experienced CSO is among the hardest of all IT roles to fill. The reaso...

Mar 04, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning

AI is making it ever easier for bad actors to launch attacks, and a newly-identified open source platform, CyberStrikeAI, seems to be lowering the bar...

Mar 04, 2026 • 5 min read

Security

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe Google will halve the time between releases...

Mar 04, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference It's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especia...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Security

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed A developer says their company is on the hook for...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling ac...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Analytics

Pixel March 2026 update fixes 16 issues: Pixel 10 GPU, battery, more

Besides the new features introduced with Android 16 QPR3, the March 2026 Pixel update includes several bug fixes across Audio, Camera, Display & G...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Security

Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases

After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label A group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate wh...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran

No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict In what may be the most public acknowledgme...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Security

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better

Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Security

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists

Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails A group of Western governments has launched a fresh...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite

AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last mo...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Analytics

Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro SSD Review: An 8TB unobtanium monster

The Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro is a monster of a drive and a compelling alternative to the 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro.

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture

Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS As the last Accenture employee clocked off from suppor...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

South Korea's National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an un...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective

Microsoft has warned that phishers are exploiting a built-in behavior of the OAuth authentication protocol to redirect victims to malware, using links...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after b...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds

Online security firm DataDome just reported that it has stopped a massive scalping effort to buy memory modules and resell them at inflated prices, tu...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions

High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature Security boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Googl...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

AI & ML

Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk

Operation Epic Fury — the US administration’s sustained kinetic pressure on core Iranian regime assets — introduces a new layer of operational risk fo...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read