Houdini 22 arrived earlier than expected and confirms nearly all our keynote findings, with two experimental features carrying caveats.

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A newly identified malware operation has used a counterfeit Python component to bypass security scrutiny, disable parts of Microsoft Defender and establish persistent remote access inside a law firm’s ...

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Shaking up the usual terminal suspects.

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Anna Snyder had been a Girl Scout for more than four years — her bright green vest glittered with earned patches — when it was time for her Bronze project. The project is part of the Bronze Award ...

Meanwhile, pull-based attacks, in which an LLM actively seeks out the adversarial prompts planted on websites, remain limited. With no way to lure large numbers of LLMs to a malicious site, these ...

ChatGPT's market share dropped from 77.6% to 53.7% in a year, while Gemini surged to 26.7%. We ran both through real coding, writing, and research tasks to find out if the numbers reflect reality.

For the Iowa City Public Library, one of the largest in Iowa, the role of the distributor is but one step in a process to get a fresh book onto its shelves. The system, which serves 100,000 residents ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the May 2026 Windows 11 security update (KB5089549) fails to install on some systems and triggers 0x800f0922 errors. This known issue is caused by insufficient free space ...