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Russian Laundry Bear cyberspies linked to Dutch Police hack
A previously unknown Russian-backed cyberespionage group tracked as Laundry Bear has been linked to a September 2024 Dutch police security breach. As the Dutch national police (Politie) revealed last year, the attackers stole work-related contact information of multiple officers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and, in some cases, private details. The Netherlands General Intelligence and […]
Windows Server emergency update fixes Hyper-V VM freezes, restart issues
Microsoft has released an emergency update to address a known issue causing some Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows Server 2022 to freeze or restart unexpectedly. These problems mainly impact Azure confidential VMs, which are designed to protect data while being processed, not just when it’s transmitted or stored. Redmond has addressed this issue with the […]
Adidas warns of data breach after customer service provider hack
German sportswear giant Adidas disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked a customer service provider and stole some customers’ data. “adidas recently became aware that an unauthorized external party obtained certain consumer data through a third-party customer service provider,” the company said on Friday. “We immediately took steps to contain the incident and launched a […]
Google claims users find ads in AI search ‘helpful’
Google AI mode and AI Overviews now have ads, which, according to the search engine giant, are “helpful.” At the Google Marketing Live event last week, Google confirmed it has started rolling out ads to AI mode and AI Overviews in the US, which create new “opportunities for customers.” While I haven’t seen ads in AI […]
OpenAI plans to ship an interesting ChatGPT product by 2026
OpenAI is planning to ship a new ChatGPT-powered product by 2026, but we aren’t looking at yet another model. In the U.S. v. Google antitrust, a slide deck pointed out that OpenAI has plans to “ship a [redacted] by 2026.” The redacted line comes from the very first slide of their H1 2025 strategy, dated December 2, 2024. According […]
Vibe coding company says Claude 4 reduced syntax errors by 25%
Lovable, which is a Vibe coding tool, says Claude 4 has reduced its errors by 25% and made it faster by 40%. On May 22, Anthropic started rolling out two new models: Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4. While Sonnet is available for free users, Opus requires a paid subscription and is able to do better […]
Leak suggests xAI is getting ready to ship Grok 3.5
xAI, founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to launch Grok 3.5, the company’s next state-of-the-art AI model. Grok AI has been around for a year now. While it was late to the game, the Grok model is pretty decent, and it’s quite impressive what the company has achieved in a limited time. Right now, xAI […]
ChatGPT Deep Research can now pull data from Dropbox and Box
You can now connect your Box and Dropbox accounts to Deep Research on ChatGPT and pull data, which will be used by the AI to conduct research. For those unaware, Deep Research is an AI agent that automates research for you. You just need to give it a brief prompt with all necessary details, and it will […]
Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test
A new report claims that OpenAI’s o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown. OpenAI announced o3 in April 2025, and it’s one of the most powerful reasoning models that performs better than its predecessors across all domains, including coding, math, science, visual perception, and more. While […]
Glitch to end app hosting and user profiles on July 8
Glitch has announced that it is ending app hosting and user profiles on July 8, in response to changing market dynamics and extensive abuse problems that have increased operational costs. The news comes directly from the platform’s CEO, Anil Dash, who acknowledged the platform’s role in the developer ecosystem. “So with so many good options for […]