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TechSpot ·
Tyler Murkerson has named Flock, Coweta County, Sheriff Lenn Wood, two sheriff's office employees, and three unidentified operators in his lawsuit. It also seeks class-action status, representing people whose vehicles were searched by...
iAfrica.com · · Medium severity
More than 150 University of Johannesburg students signed up for the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge at Vodacom World — the first delivery from the Vodacom, UJ and AWS AI partnership announced in July, and the point at which it reaches...
The Hacker News ·
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October...
TechAfrica News · · Medium severity
Vodacom and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) , in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) , have extended their artificial intelligence (AI) partnership through the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge. Held at Vodacom World in...
AWS News Blog ·
Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions , a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with...
TechRadar ·
Valor Mortis review: even with satisfying parry-focused combat, it's impossible to overlook flaws
TechRepublic ·
Anthropic’s new Claude policy prohibits extreme, repeated abuse. Learn what remains allowed, how enforcement works, and what changes for workplace users. The post Anthropic Draws a Line on Claude Abuse: What Counts as Going Too Far?
AWS Security Blog · · Critical severity
Software supply chain attacks have grown in both frequency and sophistication. Recent high-profile compromises of build systems and open source dependencies demonstrate that attackers increasingly target the trust mechanisms that verify...
AWS Security Blog ·
You want to set a cryptographic algorithm policy and stop non-compliant choices from being made in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. As you adopt post-quantum cryptography, one of the first decisions you face is which...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Lagos Life launched on 1 October as a free browser game in which players build a life in a virtual Lagos. They get a job, pay rent, eat at amala joints and go out in places such as Quilox. Eleven days later, its creator, Shalom...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
A newly discovered critical vulnerability is adding to the workload of customers mitigating other recent flaws.
Android Authority · · Unconfirmed
Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests the OnePlus 16R could come with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, triple 50MP cameras (including a telephoto), a 165Hz display, and a battery larger than 7,500mAh. Bringing...
ReadWrite ·
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued two measures that would define which prediction-market contracts fall under federal derivatives rules and which remain gambling products overseen by states. The agency says event...
ReadWrite ·
The Seminole Tribe has sued DraftKings in Broward County, alleging the company is offering unlicensed sports betting in Florida and violating the Tribe’s exclusive position under the state’s 2021 gaming compact. The lawsuit puts...
TechRadar ·
Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in...
The Verge ·
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label...
The Hacker News ·
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real...
The Register ·
Bob, possibly the same Bob whose conversations with Alice draw so much interest from eavesdropping Eve, was browsing a site we'll call TechHub. The site hosts an AI agent served by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Bob asked the agent for help...
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners.
Android Authority ·
TL;DR A newly unredacted lawsuit alleges that Character.ai chatbots encouraged users to starve themselves and engage in self-harm. The lawsuit details several disturbing conversations from 2025, including some allegedly involving...
The Hacker News · · Medium severity
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below -...
MEDIANAMA ·
A Mumbai magistrate’s court has discharged Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha, an accused in the Bulli Bai app case, holding that merely following the application does not constitute an offence without evidence of further involvement. In an order...
The Hacker News · · Medium severity
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The...
IT Security Guru ·
Attackers are exploiting two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS, the management console for Ahsay’s cloud backup software, to take over servers and quietly run cryptocurrency miners, according to researchers at Huntress....
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Artificial intelligence has become a major investment priority across the Middle East, with governments and businesses committing significant resources to infrastructure, skills, and new applications. But as adoption becomes more...
AlienVault OTX · · Critical severity
Beginning October 7, 2026, threat actors exploited two critical vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS backup utility (CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134) to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on exposed systems. The attackers chained...
ReadWrite ·
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi on Sept. 25, saying Tennessee and Ohio can regulate its sports-event contracts under state gambling laws. The unanimous three-judge panel’s decision means Kalshi lost its bid...
PYMNTS.com ·
A federal antitrust lawsuit brought against McDonald’s this week illustrates the complexities involved in applying decades-old laws to artificial intelligence and other software tools, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. The case against...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
Falling token costs and greater access to AI capabilities are helping startups move faster from experimentation to commercial deployment, AWS said
Computerworld ·
When ICANN revealed the 1,615 applications for new top-level domains (TLDs) on Wednesday, it provided a peek into efforts to control mindshare and organization perceptions via URL naming. Existing TLDs include .com, .org, .net, .edu and...
9to5Mac ·
In a joint status report made public earlier today, Apple said it is still waiting on additional documents from Jon Prosser and wants to depose Michael Ramacciotti again, while both defendants pushed back on the company’s handling of...
darkreading ·
A now-patched vulnerability in AWS Bedrock AgentCore could allow an attacker to use one AI chatbot to take over an organization's entire fleet.
TechRepublic ·
Five states have sued TP-Link over router security and disclosure claims. Here's how the lawsuits, FCC restrictions, and firmware vulnerabilities affect existing owners. The post TP-Link Faces 5 State Lawsuits: Are Its Routers Still...
Ubuntu security notices · · Medium severity
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly perform Reverse Map Table (RMP) checks when the IOMMU accessed certain host buffers. A local attacker with hypervisor access could possibly use this to trigger an out-of-bounds...
BleepingComputer ·
Cisco released security advisories for five critical vulnerabilities in its NX-OS data center network operating system that could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges on Nexus switches.
TNW ·
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday,...
CSO Online Security ·
Throughout this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has repeatedly had to patch autonomous agent security holes, which have then reemerged in slightly different forms, according to cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42...
Hacker News ·
TechCabal ·
“Turn left at the blue container, look for the mango tree, and stop before the brick fence.” For generations, finding a home in Nigeria meant understanding street codenames and landmarks. Now, the government is replacing that with a...
TNW ·
According to a new unsealed filing in New York’s lawsuit, TikTok gave thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. Reuters reported the allegations on October 7, after a judge ordered the...
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