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427 stories · page 40 of 48A hole in the heart of Linux hands root to anyone, and AI had walked right past it
CVE-2026-46242. Use-after-free in epoll that escalates an ordinary user to root - on desktops, servers, even Android. The irony: Anthropic's AI model Mythos found the neighboring bug in the same code. This exact one, it missed.
Read →FBI and Google pulled the plug on 2 million hijacked home devices
On 2 July the FBI seized the domains of NetNut. Google tore down the backend. The network - one of the largest residential proxies - was secretly turning smart TVs and routers into cover for cybercriminals and spies.
Read →SZA found her songs in a machine and told artists to reject it
238. That's how many of her own songs SZA found in a database for training AI. Then she turned publicly against the entire AI music industry and called on her fellow artists not to feed it. Her record label is already suing.
Read →AI video in a single pass: 30 seconds with no stitching
30 seconds of video, all at once, with no stitching clips together. This is what Seedance 2.5 does, made by ByteDance. It accepts up to 50 references (image, video, audio) so you can control the result. The official pages don't mention 4K: the plans list 480p, 720p and 1080p.
Read →Insurer discloses breach, data on millions of customers leaked
Insurance giant Aflac disclosed a breach through its Japanese subsidiary. According to the company, personal and financial data of millions of customers leaked. The US systems were not affected.
Read →Power, not chips, became AI's bottleneck, and the money knows it
$1.75 billion. That's what National Grid (a major utility) is putting into a power developer building capacity right next to AI data centers. The goal is to skip the slow wait for grid interconnection.
Read →Anthropic launched a science mode and is handing out research credits
Claude now conducts several agents across 60+ scientific databases - a dedicated science mode built on the lab's own infrastructure. Plus grants in compute credits for research projects.
Read →A Chinese lab launched a free agentic coding environment
Z.ai (a Chinese AI lab, formerly Zhipu) launched ZCode - a free agentic development environment built on their own GLM-5.2 model, for all platforms. The target is clear: Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
Read →Bloomberg reports Meta will sell compute power. Meta declined to comment.
Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources, that Meta is preparing a cloud business and will rent out its surplus AI accelerators and hosted models. Meta declined to comment, and there's no official announcement. Neocloud stocks (companies that rent out GPUs) fell the day of the report, Meta went up. We wrote it up as sales already under way. Mistake.
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