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Artificial intelligence
Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT
During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
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Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] The first part of the 7.4 merge window
Since the merge window for 7.4 opened, there have been 6,753 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline repository. Many more are expected, especially given the possibility that this merge window will be extended to three weeks. Still, even this initial se…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 202…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specially cr…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Pha…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support in January
Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records
American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
PHP shares mitigation for new RCE vulnerability with no patch
The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has no patch. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] Seeking smaller kernel stacks
Memory has always been a scarce resource in computing systems, but the problem seems to have worsened recently. In particular, the worldwide shortage of memory chips has led to a renewed focus by systems developers on reducing memory usage. During the memory-…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
You gave your AI agent access, but who is giving it orders?
AI agents can be manipulated through malicious emails, websites, and plugins into executing commands, stealing data, or deleting files using their legitimate permissions. Gen Digital explains how its Agent Trust Hub helps protect agents through skill verifica…
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Hackers Breach Enterprise Firewalls and VPNs, Exposing Over 70,000 Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate that operator…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, expat, grafana, grafana-pcp, httpd, iperf3, openssh, php, php8.4, php:7.4, php:8.2, and php:8.3), Debian (aide, chromium, clamav, erlang, linux-6.12, roundcube, unbound, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (bind9-n…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
HPE patches eight max severity RCE and auth bypass AOS flaws
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released security updates to patch 72 vulnerabilities in the Aruba Operating System (ArubaOS), including eight maximum-severity authentication bypass and code execution issues. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Risk Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches
PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an unusual way, and PHP …
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Russia-Linked Hackers Used New Mesh Network Backdoor in Destructive Ukraine Attack
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) obtaining in…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image
Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by pas…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data
Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux arm6…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which set no …
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously t…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach
Cloud platform Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts
Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware
Hackers compromised the LiteLLM project's PyPI package and published malicious Docker images with a payload that steals credentials, secrets, and environment variables. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Arista patches new VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks
Arista Networks released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] The end of __get_user() and __put_user()
Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts of kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a couple…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
KeePassXC 2.8.0 released
Version 2.8.0 of the KeePassXC password-management application has been released. The new release brings a lot of long-awaited new features, many bugfixes, and several security updates. Among the major features are the migration from Qt5 to Qt6, Auto-Type on …
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] Rust features in the future
There are several Rust features that kernel developers have been hoping to stabilize, but Josh Triplett wanted to describe all of the other features that the Rust project is currently working on. He spoke about the topic at Kangrejos 2026, leaving the assembl…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit-files, cockpit-machines, fetchmail, glycin-loaders, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, hostapd, jackson-core, kernel, kernel-rt, librsvg2, lrzsz, mariadb11.8, openexr, openssh, open…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 22, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Android vendor hooks; Reproducible builds and kernel integrity; Rust data structures; NFS server changes; Setting no_new_privs for PID 1; Rust XArray; Rust cross-crate declarations; 7.3 statistics; Nix flakes.…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (PHP Foundation)
The PHP Foundation has put out a blog entry explaining how the vulnerabilities disclosed today came about and why they took so long to fix. To fix the OOM problem, the PHP security team developed several competing approaches, but each came with its own trade-…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
More vulnerabilities in widely deployed software
The Node.js project has released a number of security updates to fix, among other vulnerabilities, a remote-code-execution bug affecting programs that use Brotli compression. And, in case any programmers who use compiled languages thought they could relax, th…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Programming
Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9 and 3.13.17 are out
Three certified security releases for 3.15, 3.14 and 3.13.
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable
A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.
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Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.
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Artificial intelligence
Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
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Artificial intelligence
State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind
MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.
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Artificial intelligence
AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
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Artificial intelligence
Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and society
In a new book, Professor Eric So explores how the technology affects our thinking skills.
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Artificial intelligence
Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks out
A new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Programming
Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available
The first developer preview of Python 3.16 is ready for testing.
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