The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking...
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Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious
Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims its Duo chatbot can “instantly generate a to-do list” that eliminates the burden of “wading through weeks of commits.” What these companies don’t say is that these tools are, by temperament if not default, easily...
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Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?
On Tuesday, Google launched Veo 3, a new AI video synthesis model that can do something no major AI video generator has been able to do before: create a synchronized audio track. While from 2022 to 2024, we saw early steps in AI video generation, each video was silent and usually very short in duration....
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(BPRW) Debt Without a Degree: The Coming College Completion Crisis
By Iyana Moore (Black PR Wire) Each May, we celebrate the students who beat the odds: those who pushed through systemic barriers, financial strain, and personal hardships to earn their degrees. But amid the pomp and circumstance, we must also confront a h…
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OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive New Data Center in the U.A.E.
As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.
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Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open source archives face. Eight packages using names that closely mimicked those of widely used legitimate packages contained destructive payloads designed to corrupt or delete...
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Report calls for regulation of “legally and ethically flawed” VMware
VMware’s business model under Broadcom is “legally and ethically flawed,” a group of cloud service provider (CSP) customers and partners alleged in a report released today. The report (PDF) comes from the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which describes itself as “independent monitoring body” composed of members of the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe...
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New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight
On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return to larger model releases after primarily focusing on mid-range Sonnet variants since June of last year. The new models represent what the company calls its most capable coding models yet, with Opus 4 designed for complex, long-running tasks that can...
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Authorities carry out global takedown of infostealer used by cybercriminals
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies and tech companies announced on Wednesday that they have disrupted the infostealer malware known as Lumma. One of the most popular infostealers worldwide, Lumma has been used by hundreds of what Microsoft calls “cyber threat actors” to steal passwords, credit card and banking information, and cryptocurrency wallet details....
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(BPRW) The National Black Nurses Association Endorses “Nurses SHIFT Change: Report for Duty Rally” — A National Call to Action for Health Equity and Policy Reform
(Black PR Wire) Silver Spring, MD — The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) is proudto officially endorse the Nurses SHIFT Change: Report for Duty Rally, taking placenationwide on Saturday, May 24, 2025. This unprecedented event, centered on Hu…