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A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware HollowGraph, says the approach moves tasking and stolen data through legitimate Microsoft Graph API traffic, so the activity looks like ordinary Microsoft 365 chatter and network controls keyed to attacker-owned destinations have nothing to flag. The implant is a .NET DLL that supports just two commands, get and send, and it never reaches out to an attacker-owned server for payloads.…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi K3, a powerful new open-weight large language model already drawing comparisons with the industry’s leading proprietary systems. With 2.8 trillion total parameters, a 1 million-token context window, and a novel attention architecture optimized for long-context efficiency, Kimi K3 stands as one of the most significant open AI releases of 2026. The launch comes amid intensifying competition between Chinese and U.S. AI companies. While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google continue to dominate the commercial AI landscape, Kimi K3 demonstrates how quickly Chinese developers are narrowing the performance gap – particularly in open-weight models. Kimi K3…
AI was supposed to make our lives better. Instead, it’s made many of us scared and angry. Communities are protesting against the building of new data centers — the warehouses of IT equipment powering the AI buildout — across the country, and increasingly they’re winning. And polling shows most Americans think AI is moving too fast.So how did public opinion on AI curdle so quickly? Jasmine Sun, who reports on the industry from San Francisco, argues that the backlash treats AI less as a technology and more as a political project. “The debate was not about like, is ChatGPT useful…
Apple is within striking distance of reclaiming the title of world’s most valuable company from NVIDIA. We break down the shift from infrastructure to user data. The crown for the world’s most valuable company is up for grabs again. Apple has pulled within striking distance of overtaking NVIDIA, with both tech giants currently neck and neck at a staggering $4.9 trillion valuation. For the past year, NVIDIA has been the undisputed king of Wall Street, riding an unprecedented wave of gen AI infrastructure demand. However, a slight cooling in chip stock momentum, paired with a rise in Apple’s premarket trading,…
Malware designers have evolved beyond their initial simplicity, becoming more devious in their abilities to access your personal data. Gone are the days of attempting to hack into corporate systems; they are finding it a lot more lucrative to go after private individuals. This malware is of particular interest to those in South Africa as a recent 24-billion record data leak from Infostealer has exposed email addresses, usernames, login URLs, and plain text passwords from those in South Africa. This puts a large number of South Africans at risk. The database seems to have come from both new and older…
Apple discontinued the Mac Pro earlier this year, ending a 20-year run for a computer that once represented the very best of the company’s desktop lineup. However, Apple reportedly had much bigger plans for the machine before ultimately replacing it with the Mac Studio. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple developed an M3 Extreme chip that could have offered twice as many CPU and GPU cores as the M3 Ultra. The processor was intended to sit above the Ultra tier and could have finally given the Mac Pro the performance advantage it badly needed. Apple eventually abandoned the chip due…
The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover. Reto There’s a new Kodak-branded camera from Charmera-maker Reto, and it’s a super-cute point-and-shoot film camera that won’t break the bank. The $35 Kodak EC35 announced this week is meant to be as accessible as a disposable camera, featuring a 25mm lens with a fixed f/10 aperture, fixed 1/100 second shutter speed and a built-in flash (which requires a AA battery). It also has a slide cover that protects the lens and serves as a shutter lock, so you can throw it in a…
Spotify, it’s fair to say, has made some weird user-experience choices.There are a number of panels in the app, and the layout is confusing. The service constantly tracks your activity. The app also seems to have an odd hostility to playing actual albums. This all works to create a general feeling that Spotify’s designers are trying to push you into using the service in a particular way.It’s understandable, then, that some people are annoyed with the way music videos have been added to the platform. For the most part, they would start to play by default, in the background, whenever…
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an earlier build should upgrade. Triggering it can crash or restart the worker, causing a denial of service; where ASLR is disabled or can be bypassed, F5 says it may also allow remote code execution. The overflow lives in nginx’s script engine, the code that assembles strings from directives at request time.…
Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features one of those purple categories where you need to hunt down a hidden word inside four of the clues. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the…