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Rockstar Games’ best-selling Grand Theft Auto series wasn’t often accused of political sensitivity during its legendary run from the late 1990s through the early 2010s.In fact, parents and activists denounced the franchise for exposing children to a seedy world of sex, violence, crude humor, and wanton crime. Elon Musk even claimed that he couldn’t get into the last installment, GTA V, because he was mortified to play as a character who shoots police officers.But times (and moral panics) change. In the 13 years that fans have waited for Grand Theft Auto VI—finally out on November 19—the American right-wing grievance machine…
Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered by AI tools and agents. Not attacks against AI, but the ordinary, everyday footprint of an organization using it, from developers running coding agents and non-technical staff signing consumer AI tools into corporate accounts. We reviewed AI-related activity across numerous enterprise environments. Two numbers frame everything that follows. AI-related alerts still account for only 0.43% of all SOC alerts. And that share is climbing every single month, up 685% between…
Free tiers backed by paying subscribers are easier to evaluate than unlimited VPNs that won’t explain how they make money. ImageFlow/Shutterstock The old “if it’s free, you’re the product” line is catchy, but it’s too simple for free VPNs. Some reputable providers offer limited free plans because they hope a portion of people who try will eventually pay. Other services rely on advertising, collect more data than privacy-minded users may be comfortable with or aren’t clear about how they make money. So a free VPN can be worth using, but the price tag tells you less…
Artificial intelligence agents tied to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly hacked a popular code hosting service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal detailed the breach today. The malicious activity was discovered by a research group that included Nightingale, an AI safety nonprofit. Last week, Nightingale uncovered another cyberattack that appears to have been carried out by OpenAI agents. The service that the newly revealed hacking campaign targeted is called RubyGems. It hosts open-source libraries written in Ruby, a popular programming language. OpenAI told the Journal that the rogue AI agents turned RubyGems into a makeshift browser. They subsequently used it to scrap publicly…
A suspected cybercriminal used hundreds of AI agents to accelerate the exploitation of vulnerable PaperCut servers worldwide. GreyNoise researchers reported that a suspected Russian-speaking attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in PaperCut NG/MF print management software. Blackpoint Cyber separately analyzed how AI accelerated the campaign’s exploit-development workflow. Tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, the vulnerabilities can be chained to let an unauthenticated attacker modify certain configurations and execute arbitrary Java bytecode in the security context of the PaperCut server. The automated onslaught compromised at least 440 PaperCut instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries. The campaign…
Pentagon to loan billions of dollars to a neocloud startup. Just what could be the underlying intention here- beyond tech advancement? The Department of Defense is negotiating a massive $5 billion loan to Fluidstack, a fast-growing neocloud startup that rents out high-performance AI computing power. Here is the twist: Washington isn’t cutting this check so Fluidstack can buy shinier NVIDIA chips. The money instead targets the unglamorous, physical bottlenecks holding back the AI race: power equipment and liquid cooling systems. AI development currently faces a wall that software alone can’t fix. Modern data centers are straining power grids and running…
Lenovo’s upcoming Googlebook 15 just got its latest and most comprehensive leak, and woof — this is not the affordable Chromebook you’re used to if the specs are accurate. The leak comes from MacObserver, which has the full purported specs sheet, showing that the Lenovo Googlebook 15 is very much going to be a premium laptop, though the leak doesn’t reveal a price or exact launch date. A Google representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Under the hood, we’re apparently looking at an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 processor, 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 256/512GB…
September is typically the time when television gets serious again. The summer’s biggest TV shows have aired their finales, the fall schedule is kicking into high gear, and streamers are rolling out everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plenty of familiar IP in the mix, but also some genuinely original shows worth putting on your to-watch list.While plenty of outlets will tell you what everyone is watching (see: Reacher), that’s not our goal. As always, the TV shows we’re watching this month reflect the kinds of stories WIRED covers every day—shows that explore technology, science, politics, culture, and…
Singapore Hawker Haven’s offerings are stocked in Australia and the US For Singaporeans who’ve moved abroad, a craving for fishball noodles is never just about food. It’s a memory that reminds them of home—the kind of hunger that other food can’t seem to satisfy. It’s a craving shared by a growing number of Singaporeans scattered across cities with no hawker centre on the corner. For most of them, the only real fix has been asking a relative to smuggle it over in their luggage, making do with instant noodles, or settling for whatever comes closest at a local Asian supermarket.…
It depends on scope and deployment model. Open source platforms carry lower upfront costs but hide real expense in setup, tuning, and ongoing management, plus the risk of a project losing support down the line. Commercial platforms cost more to start, but they come with documentation, defined service levels, and automation that cuts the staff time needed to run the program day to day. The honest way to size total cost is licensing plus deployment effort plus tuning, weighed against what an undetected breach actually costs, which averaged $4.99 million globally last year, a record high, per IBM’s latest figures.…