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Security researchers have uncovered a network of 152 Google Chrome extensions posing as live wallpaper and new-tab customization tools that secretly collected user information and generated fake web traffic to make money through advertising. The extensions, which featured popular themes ranging from anime characters and football stars to sports cars and video games, were spread across 38 different Chrome Web Store publisher accounts. Together, they amassed more than 105,000 installations, according to research from Socket’s Threat Research Team. The operation was linked to three backend brands: tabplugins[.]com, yowgames[.]com, and chromewallpaper[.]com. Researchers said the extensions were built from a shared codebase,…
Vedana’s lealdership team, from left: Dr. Rob Lenz, board chair; Leon Garcia, co-founder and chief scientific officer; Anurag Agarwal, co-founder and CEO; and Dr. Ernesto Aycardi, chief medical officer. (Vedana Photo) Vedana Therapeutics, a Seattle-based startup aiming to prevent migraine attacks, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $46 million and a leadership team of heavy-hitters in cutting-edge migraine treatment. The new funding will allow the company to advance antibody therapies targeting migraine-related signaling pathways — candidates patients could eventually self-administer by injection at home. Vedana’s goal is to become the definitive migraine therapy company — and its roster of leaders, board…
The last time Google released a smart speaker, the world was in the throes of a pandemic. Yes, it’s been six years since the company trotted out a dedicated speaker.However, this newest Google Home Speaker brings a big change with it: The device has been redesigned to showcase the new Gemini assistant instead of the Google Assistant that powered all previous speakers and smart displays.Google announced the speaker last fall alongside new Nest smart home cameras and video doorbells, promising a spring 2026 launch. We’re well into summer now, but it’s finally go time.The company today announced that preorders for…
I’ve spent some time investigating financial crime across the open web, dark web forums, and increasingly, across encrypted messaging platforms. Nothing, however, has shifted the threat landscape quite like Telegram. What began as a privacy-focused messaging app has quietly become one of the most active marketplaces for financial fraud, money laundering, carding, crypto laundering, and investment scams on the planet. For those of us doing investigations, whether you’re in law enforcement, financial intelligence, or private OSINT work, understanding how to operate on Telegram is no longer optional. It’s a core competency. This article is my operational methodology. I’m going to…
An auto factory worker can remember the storage bin where she left a partly assembled component the night before, and quickly return to that spot to pick it up. But robots that may work side-by-side with her would struggle to develop and access this same type of “spatiotemporal” memory.Now, MIT researchers have developed a long-term memory framework that allows robots to rapidly form and recall a detailed mental model of complicated, large-scale environments.In the future, this advance could allow the factory worker to send a robotic assistant to fetch the item, simply by asking it to “go and grab the…
It’s official. Elon Musk is now the world’s first-ever trillionaire, after his rocket ship company SpaceX’s record-shattering $2 trillion debut on the NASDAQ last Friday.With a mind-numbing net fortune of $1.4 trillion that is growing by the day, Musk is now worth more than the entire economy of Switzerland. He is more than 13 times as wealthy as Bill Gates, and if you are anywhere near middle class, he is over 11 million times wealthier than you. He’s rich enough to collectively purchase every seat for every single World Cup match, every stub in every city on Taylor Swift’s Eras…
Cyber resilience company CYGNVS Inc. today launched its AI Incident Command Center, a platform built to help organizations manage operational crises caused by their own artificial intelligence deployments. The product extends CYGNVS’ existing out-of-band incident platform to a new category of risk: failures in the models and agents companies are putting into production. Those failures range from biased outputs and hallucinations to data leakage and autonomous agents pursuing objectives in unintended or destructive ways. CYGNVS built its platform around isolation, the same principle security teams apply to ransomware response. The company said the architecture keeps incident response off the corporate…
But will it see the same success as the MacBook Neo? Dell Dell announced the return of the XPS 13 late last month and said broadly that it would be available in June. The low-cost laptop is now available on both virtual and brick-and-mortar store shelves. It retails starting at $599 for students and $699 for other customers. The Dell XPS 13 announcement came hot on the heels of Apple unveiling its first true budget laptop. The MacBook Neo is designed for education, targeting both teachers and students as its likely buyers and it impressed in…
The US government. might have torpedoed Anthropic’s plans for its most powerful model yet. And the company is hoping it’s merely a fluke. In the AI race, there’s a major influencing factor that the companies have overlooked- the US government. Anthropic has been in hot water with the Trump Administration recently. Previously, it refused to allow the military department to access (and use) its AI model for fully autonomous systems and domestic surveillance. The government’s response was as brutal as the rejection- it placed Anthropic on a supply chain blocklist. The tides can be felt once the block comes into…
Swati KhandelwalJun 16, 2026Machine Learning / Cloud Security A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim’s project hijack the victim’s machine learning model upload and run code inside Google’s serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google’s bug bounty program, calls the technique “Pickle in the Middle” and said it saw no exploitation in the wild. Google has patched it; if you use the SDK, update to version 1.148.0 or later. The attacker needed only a Google Cloud project of their…