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Swati KhandelwalJun 11, 2026Vulnerability / Data Breach The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest. Google’s Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its advisory until June 10, so the bug was a zero-day the entire time. The flaw, CVE-2026-35273, is a remote code execution bug in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools rated 9.8 out of 10. It needs no login and no…
Adjusting your Google TV settings is one of those things that sounds simple until you are three menus deep trying to find the brightness slider. Google just made that whole experience a lot less annoying. The company has rolled out new controls for Gemini, and TCL is the exclusive launch partner, meaning TCL TV owners get access to the feature for the first 60 days before it opens up to other Google TV brands. What can the new Gemini TV controls actually do for you? Google Instead of digging through settings menus, you can talk to your TV. You can…
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition features a fun soccer topic that World Cup watchers might appreciate. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play…
In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number to that choice. Thurstone was a pioneer of “psychometrics” — a field built upon the premise that mental processes, which we cannot see, can nevertheless be measured and quantified. His 1927 paper laid the groundwork for what are now called random utility models, which provide a mathematical framework for describing human preferences — information that can…
For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator Maggie Hassan, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, faults the company for acting only after news outlets exposed the content and her office spent nearly a year pressing for answers.None of what it removed was sent to law enforcement, the report says.Spotify reportedly removed more than 57,000 podcast episodes and 3,000 shows, and took enforcement action against 3,500 accounts, all pushing links to illegal online pharmacies advertising opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants for sale without…
Salaries for AI roles in Singapore have climbed 15-25% in the last 12 months Artificial intelligence builders are winning even as AI is used to justify cutting jobs in big tech and global banks. In Singapore, salaries for workers developing these systems are climbing up to five times faster than average wages. The pay for AI roles has climbed 15–25% in the past year, with fresh hires starting at S$70,000–S$90,000 annually, according to a Robert Walters report cited by The Straits Times. Meanwhile, overall nominal wages for full-time workers rose 4.9% in 2025, down from 5.6% in 2024, per Ministry…
Most marketers have a transactional relationship with AI, A. Lee Judge says. They put in a request. They get out an asset. They edit it until it sounds like their voice or their brand’s. Then, they repeat. But Judge, founder of B2B content marketing and production company Content Monsta, explains AI isn’t meant to replace human content creators; it’s meant to elevate them.
Autonomous artificial intelligence-powered software testing tool TestSprite Inc. today announced that the company has open-sourced its command-line interface tool that allows AI coding agents to verify their own work. As the AI coding revolution has rolled in, autonomous coding tools have become smarter and enabled developers to prompt their way to entire applications overnight. The result is faster code, but at the same time, it means that the software can come off the digital assembly line with unseen bugs that may not be caught by unit tests run by agentic tools. In too many cases, an AI agent might report…
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain attack leveraging FireAnt Metakit, a popular software platform used by stock investors in Vietnam. The second activity cluster took place from October 2025 to March 2026. The two sets of attacks represent a shift in operational focus, per ESET, with the threat actor placing an…
Microsoft’s restyled Xbox logo. (Microsoft Image) Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, roughly 100 days into her tenure, delivered a blunt assessment of Microsoft’s gaming business in a memo to employees Wednesday, saying that heavy spending with thin profit margins and declining revenue “cannot continue.” The memo, posted publicly on the Xbox blog, came as Bloomberg News reported that the division is planning major job cuts next month, soon after the close of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30. Xbox is also planning significant cuts to marketing and other budgets, according to the report. The exact scale of the layoffs is not…