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The Hacker News

Crypto Clipper Campaign Abuses Fake Reviews, AI Narrators, and VirusTotal Comments

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phishing page that acts as the central hub, alongside GitHub and SourceForge projects promoted by fake accounts, a YouTube channel, and a

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DZone

The Real-Time Revolution: Why Blockchain Needs Data Stream Processing

Blockchain is an extremely data-driven technology because its primary function is to store, verify, and coordinate independent records in a secure, distributed data network. Without this information, no transaction, smart contract execution, or network activity would be valid, and it could jeopardize the integrity of much larger functions of trust.  The data coming into the blockchain affects the accuracy of the whole system. Blockchain is nothing without the data it connects to, so, as far as t

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The Hacker News

Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development

Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation flaw. "Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender

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The Verge Tech

Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly

According to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Overall, use of AI chatbots has increased dramatically since 2024, when only 33 percent reported using them. Specifically, ChatGPT's usage has doubled since 2023, with 44 percent of respondents saying they've used it. But opinions remain negative, with only 16 percent saying that AI will have a positive impact on society. Interest

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale

Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. Today, that context is scattered across data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, databases, and streams, and in institutional knowledge that has never been written down. You want to trust the decisions made by your AI agents, but that can't happen until agents have context. Imagine what becomes possible when we give agents a safe way to access the context they need to deliver trusted decisions. This is why at the AWS Summit New

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