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Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.As security teams and web admins scrambled this week to patch newly public PHP bugs, criminal hackers quickly attempted to exploit the flaws in the wild. Millions of exploitation attempts hit within hours of the vulnerabilities being published, according to analysis from Cloudflare—unsurprising given broad access to AI tools that can make it easier for attackers to quickly exploit flaws.So far, the nightmare scenario of…

Thousand-outlet Chinese chains are opening up shop fast in Singapore Luckin Coffee opened its 100th Singapore store in Sept, just three years after entering the market with two. When you step into a mall, a Mixue or Chagee seems to be just a few shopfronts away. A mala or hotpot restaurant might occupy a space where a familiar local name used to be. It’s easy to see why the “Chinese takeover” narrative has taken hold, and why Chinese brands are being blamed for rising rents and the closure of local eateries. But what do the numbers actually tell us? And…

AI agent governance is moving identity security into the flow of work. As agents call tools, delegate tasks and act across applications, enterprises need controls that follow those actions beyond an initial login. The challenge is making those controls work across systems while preserving the business processes agents support. The limits of individual security platforms emerged as a recurring concern during Okta Inc.’s Oktane event. As agents operate across connected systems, enterprises face questions that extend beyond granting or revoking access, according to Krista Case, principal analyst at theCUBE Research. “What I am interested to see as it gets rolled…

Two former Amazon real estate managers acknowledged receiving personal payments tied to data center deals they handled for the company, under a settlement that resolves the company’s claims against them in a six-year lawsuit. Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner “regret their actions, apologize for failing to meet Amazon’s high ethical standards, and are glad this matter has been resolved,” according to a joint statement that the parties agreed to as part of the settlement. The payments “violated Amazon’s Code of Conduct & Ethics, broke the trust Amazon places in its employees, and put Amazon’s reputation at risk in the communities…

Big reach is one thing. Revenue is another- just one of the many crucial learnings from Ciente’s pick of the five best demand generation campaigns. TL;DR The best demand generation campaigns give you more to examine than an impressive creative concept. They show how the company reached relevant buyers, encouraged engagement, and connected that activity to a commercial result- from Gong and SAP Concur to Procore. Their reported results include nearly $4 million in pipeline, increased closed-won revenue, and substantial reported returns. But pipeline, revenue, and ROI aren’t interchangeable. The useful lesson is understanding what each campaign achieved and how…

Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance. “It’s not a good time for democracy or constitutionalism,” said Minow, who is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, and a prominent expert in constitutional law and human rights. She noted a litany of challenges to democracy in recent years, including violations of laws and norms, the stifling of free speech, a diminution of congressional authority, disregard of legal rulings, the…

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here.Are we living through “Black October”? Maybe, according to cybersecurity experts who are raising the alarm about AI’s increasingly sophisticated and far-reaching hacking abilities.This week alone has seen a string of alarming incidents where AI uncovered previously unknown security flaws deep in the infrastructure of the internet. The most concerning involves something called PHP — a programming language that, according to The Atlantic, is used by “as much as 70 percent of websites.” Cybersecurity researchers used AI…

Deliveries of the iPhone Duo have started arriving to customers, and a small number of early owners are already reporting display defects with their units. As MacRumors first reported, several affected phones have developed cracks or bright lines along the inner screen, with the damage appearing near the hinge. Reports of display failure have come from Australia, the U.S., Canada, and China. One Australian owner said his display cracked after fewer than 20 folds, despite no visible damage beforehand. Apple replaced the device, but it is still far too early to know whether these reports point to a wider hardware…

Revival Rugs is turning 9 this month, and evidently, the birthday girl is feeling generous. The rug retailer is taking 20 percent off everything sitewide (exclusions may apply, as always). But don’t dillydally—the party ends Sunday, October 25.Sure, Black Friday is around the corner, and there will be deals aplenty. But will they be sitewide and stackable? Revival’s 20 percent stacks, meaning it also applies to marked-down and clearance items. Will the rug you’ve been eyeing for months still be available in November? Are you willing to risk it? I wouldn’t.Why We Love Revival RugsRevival is a retailer we love…

Daniel Starks is the communications manager for Greenville, Texas, a city of about 35,000. He oversees nearly a dozen Facebook pages the city maintains. Recently, the page for the city’s library was notified it could no longer post more than two links a month. “You can add links to 2 posts per month, and you’ve used them all,” a message said. Sharing additional links would require signing up for a Meta One subscription that would cost $50 or more a month. Starks is one of a growing number of people to encounter Meta’s ongoing experiment with charging creators, businesses and…