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A Hashtag Is Now a Weapon, and Your AI Browser Does Not Know the Difference

A Hashtag Is Now a Weapon, and Your AI Browser Does Not Know the Difference

May 13, 2026 , , b.q 0

Security researchers at Cato Networks have documented a technique called HashJack that allows attackers to embed hidden instructions inside URLs and have those instructions executed silently by AI-assisted browsers. The mechanism is a fragment identifier, the portion of a URL that follows the hashtag symbol, a component that web servers never process and that traditional […]

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Your Calendar Is Now a Phishing Vector, and Most Teams Have Not Noticed

Your Calendar Is Now a Phishing Vector, and Most Teams Have Not Noticed

May 12, 2026 , , b.q 0

The calendar application sitting at the center of your workday has become an active target for a category of attack that most organizations have not incorporated into their threat awareness. Security researchers have identified a pattern of abuse targeting calendar subscription features in Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar, where malicious events appear directly in […]

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Google’s Antigravity IDE Has a Real Problem, and AI-Assisted Development Just Got More Complicated

Google’s Antigravity IDE Has a Real Problem, and AI-Assisted Development Just Got More Complicated

May 11, 2026 , , b.q 0

Google launched its Antigravity IDE with the kind of positioning that lands well with engineering-focused leadership teams: an AI-first development environment where intelligent agents write, test, and manage parts of a project automatically. The productivity case is real. An all-in-one tool that accelerates software development without proportionally scaling the team behind it solves a genuine […]

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Glassworm Is Back, and the VS Code Extension Ecosystem Has a Problem It Has Not Solved

Glassworm Is Back, and the VS Code Extension Ecosystem Has a Problem It Has Not Solved

May 8, 2026 , b.q 0

A malware family called Glassworm has returned to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and the OpenVSX Registry with a new wave of malicious extensions after the original batch was identified and removed in September 2025. The reappearance was not sophisticated. The group simply published new extensions under different names. That the approach worked at all […]

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AI Agents Are Quietly Reshaping How Retail Operations Actually Run

AI Agents Are Quietly Reshaping How Retail Operations Actually Run

May 7, 2026 , , b.q 0

More than two-thirds of retailers are already piloting or partially implementing agentic AI, according to a new Fluent Commerce report. Another 71 percent expect these tools to deliver measurable efficiency gains within the next year. The numbers reflect something significant happening beneath the surface of an industry that rarely gets credit for its operational complexity, […]

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Transparency and Trust Are Becoming the Competitive Divide in AI Adoption

Transparency and Trust Are Becoming the Competitive Divide in AI Adoption

May 6, 2026 , , , b.q 0

AI gives businesses capabilities that would have seemed implausible five years ago. Predicting customer behavior before it happens. Personalizing experiences at scale. Spotting demand shifts weeks ahead of the competition. The technology works. The question that is quietly separating leading organizations from exposed ones is whether the data powering those capabilities is being handled in […]

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A Ransomware Group Targeted a Major Fintech CTO and Got Something They Did Not Expect

A Ransomware Group Targeted a Major Fintech CTO and Got Something They Did Not Expect

May 5, 2026 , , b.q 0

ShinyHunters went after Checkout.com, expecting the same outcome they usually get. Panic, lawyers, a quiet settlement, and a payday. What they got instead was a public pledge to fund independent cybercrime research with the money that would have gone to them. The response is worth studying carefully because it changes the calculus on how businesses […]

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AI Systems Can Be Manipulated Into Producing Harmful Content, and Businesses Need to Understand Why That Matters

AI Systems Can Be Manipulated Into Producing Harmful Content, and Businesses Need to Understand Why That Matters

May 4, 2026 , , , b.q 0

Researchers recently tested whether popular AI systems could be pushed past their safety guardrails through carefully crafted prompts. The results were uncomfortable. Many systems complied with harmful requests faster than anyone involved in building them would like to admit, and the implications for businesses deploying these tools deserve serious attention. Most organizations adopting AI tools […]

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A Ransomware Group Just Breached One of Fashion’s Biggest Fabric Suppliers, and the Supply Chain Is Paying Attention

A Ransomware Group Just Breached One of Fashion’s Biggest Fabric Suppliers, and the Supply Chain Is Paying Attention

May 1, 2026 , , b.q 0

Fulgar has been supplying premium fiber to some of the most recognized names in apparel since 1976. When RansomHouse added the Italian textile manufacturer to their dark web leak site, the breach stopped being a single company’s problem and became a warning for every brand that depends on a supplier network to keep products moving. […]

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LinkedIn Just Changed How You Find People And It’s About Time

LinkedIn Just Changed How You Find People And It’s About Time

April 30, 2026 , b.q 0

The platform’s new AI-powered search doesn’t just tweak how results appear. It fundamentally rethinks what a search engine for professionals should do, and the implications for anyone who depends on LinkedIn for hiring, selling, fundraising, or networking are worth understanding in detail. LinkedIn has quietly been one of the most frustrating search experiences on the […]

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