Microsoft is facing criticism for its handling of zero-day exploits. Someone going by the name Nightmare Eclipse has been publicly feuding with the company, posting proof-of-concept exploit code. Some ...

Microsoft pushed out-of-band patches on May 21, 2026, for two actively exploited Windows Defender zero-days — one that lets a ...

Two North Korea-linked hacks in April drained almost $600 million from DeFi protocols Drift Protocol ($285 million) and Kelp DAO ($292 million). Cybersecurity experts believe the attackers used AI to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s planting season, and 70 percent of American farmers can’t afford enough ...

The Epitome of WTF: A researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker's full-volume encryption. The ...

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds.

Alcohol can feel deeply entwined in our lives. A beer or glass of wine while catching up with friends. A cocktail at the end of a hard day. A round of toasts at a party. It’s hard to believe that such ...

The 2FA bypass exploit stemmed from a faulty trust assumption, providing evidence of AI reasoning that can discover high-level logic flaws. The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released ...

Cloning has long been treated as a futuristic shortcut to copying human beings. But this episode reveals a much darker reality: making another body like yours is one thing, proving that the duplicate ...

Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, is bringing over executives from the CoreAI engineering group where she worked before, along with a director at her previous company, Instacart. Xbox has seen ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

Ms. Sun writes about A.I. and Silicon Valley culture on Substack. Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I live in San ...