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Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim to be desktop applications like GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus, only to deliver a malware family called
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Grafana 13.3 is here, bringing more consistency and control to how you work across Grafana. Cross-dashboard variables help you manage shared dashboard controls from one place, while Notebooks let you capture and share findings from across Grafana in a single, editable document. You'll also get a first look at Grafana's biggest visual refresh since Grafana 7, along with new ways to guide and refine dashboards built with Grafana Assistant. Below are just some of the highlights from this release.
Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program. The post Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Taiwan storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS. Currently, that rate is 30%. Signing the updated terms by October 31 is not required to receive the benefit of these commission rate changes starting that date. The Apple Developer Program Lice
What started as a recovery tool for streaming pipelines ended up as a full-fledged self-service platform, with scheduled watermark-based incremental ingestion, ad-hoc/one-time data replay, and throughput control built in along the way. The origin was narrow: streaming pipelines fail. A downstream consumer has an outage, a schema changes, a job crashes partway through, and, let's say, Kafka partitions are already gone due to max retention; when that happens, someone needs a way to re-publish a wi
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