Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
There are a lot of AI coding applications out there, and as impressive as large language models and the agents they enable have become, many of the most recent developments…
Brendan Carr Is Illegally Dismantling U.S. Media Consolidation Law
Brendan Carr and the Trump FCC are finalizing plans to illegally eliminate what’s left of the country’s already barely functional media consolidation limits; a specific gift to Trump-friendly right wing…
Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs
A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google’s open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come…
New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction
Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver processes XZ…
SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving…
World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent
In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said…
India’s first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
Indian space officials celebrated the debut flight of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket, India’s first fully commercial satellite launcher, as a “grand success” Saturday after an on-target climb into a 280-mile-high…
Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was…
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a simple comment about the judicial smackdown of Trump’s IRS settlement: Bar referrals. Finally. In second place,…
SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access
A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since…