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“Payroll Pirate” Is Hijacking Paychecks Through Sneaky Phishing Tricks—Here’s How It Works and How to Stay Safe

“Payroll Pirate” Is Hijacking Paychecks Through Sneaky Phishing Tricks—Here’s How It Works and How to Stay Safe

Photo by Samsung Memory on Unsplash Imagine logging into your bank account on payday only to find… nothing. Your paycheck didn’t land. It wasn’t a delayed transfer. It was stolen. And you never saw it coming. Microsoft is warning about a phishing threat that’s quietly rerouting employee paychecks—and it’s already made its way into at […]

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70,000 Discord Users Had Their Government IDs Stolen in a Data Breach — Here’s What Happened

70,000 Discord Users Had Their Government IDs Stolen in a Data Breach — Here’s What Happened

Image by thisGUYshoots on Unsplash Ever handed over a photo of your government ID just to use a website? If you’ve done that with Discord, you might want to check your inbox. Discord just confirmed that roughly 70,000 users had their government-issued ID images exposed in a recent data breach. The breach wasn’t directly within

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Just 250 Corrupted Files Can Backdoor AI Models Like ChatGPT and Claude — Here’s Why That Matters

Just 250 Corrupted Files Can Backdoor AI Models Like ChatGPT and Claude — Here’s Why That Matters

Image by Mauro Sbicego on Unsplash A recent study has revealed something pretty unexpected: just 250 sneaky documents are enough to install a digital backdoor inside large AI language models — the kind behind tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The kicker? The size of the model doesn’t really change this vulnerability. Wait, just 250

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Salesforce Says “No Deal” in Billion-Record Data Breach Threat: Refuses $Ransom and Faces the Fallout

Salesforce Says “No Deal” in Billion-Record Data Breach Threat: Refuses $Ransom and Faces the Fallout

Image by Compare Fibre on Unsplash When a cybercrime group shows up with nearly a billion stolen records and demands a ransom, you might expect a big tech company to quietly settle. Not this time. Salesforce is taking a stand—and it’s making headlines. What Happened? A threat group calling itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” claims to

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The AI Stock Boom Feels Like the Dotcom Bubble, Says Bank of England — Should We Be Worried?

The AI Stock Boom Feels Like the Dotcom Bubble, Says Bank of England — Should We Be Worried?

Photo by DL314 Lin on Unsplash The Bank of England just issued its clearest warning yet: we might be living through an AI stock bubble that looks a lot like the dotcom craze of the late ’90s — and the consequences could be just as brutal. In a report released Wednesday, the UK’s central bank

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Can Tackle Coding for 30 Hours Without Losing Focus — And Developers Are Paying Attention

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Can Tackle Coding for 30 Hours Without Losing Focus — And Developers Are Paying Attention

Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash A new AI model just landed, and it might make your current code buddy look a little sleepy. Anthropic has officially launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, calling it their most capable AI yet. If you’re a developer, this one’s worth watching. Not because it writes slightly better function names —

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California’s New AI Law Promises Transparency, But Is It All Smoke and Mirrors?

California’s New AI Law Promises Transparency, But Is It All Smoke and Mirrors?

Photo by Yarenci Hdz on Unsplash This week, California made headlines by signing a major artificial intelligence law. But here’s the twist: it’s the version Big Tech was rooting for. On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom officially signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act” into law. Sounds like a big step, right? It kind of

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DeepSeek’s New Sparse Attention Model Promises Faster AI at Half the Cost — Even with Less Hardware

DeepSeek’s New Sparse Attention Model Promises Faster AI at Half the Cost — Even with Less Hardware

Photo by fabio on Unsplash If you’ve ever felt ChatGPT getting sluggish during a long chat, you’re not imagining things. AI models can start choking under the weight of too much text. But one Chinese AI company thinks it has a solution — and it doesn’t involve throwing more hardware at the problem. Let’s talk

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OpenAI Just Landed a Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD — And It Comes With a Stock Surprise

OpenAI Just Landed a Massive AI Chip Deal with AMD — And It Comes With a Stock Surprise

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash OpenAI’s hunger for more AI muscle just gave AMD one of its biggest wins yet. On Monday, AMD revealed a massive multi-year deal to supply OpenAI with high-powered AI chips starting in the second half of 2026. The scope? We’re talking hundreds of thousands of AMD’s graphics processing units

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Cheap Hardware Hacks Just Broke Intel and AMD’s Trusted Enclaves. That’s a Huge Problem for Cloud Security

Cheap Hardware Hacks Just Broke Intel and AMD’s Trusted Enclaves. That’s a Huge Problem for Cloud Security

Photo by Growtika on Unsplash Cloud apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and even blockchain systems trust something called a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to keep sensitive data safe. But this week, researchers cracked open those defenses — using tools you could buy for less than $50. Let’s talk about what’s at stake, how these attacks work,

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