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What to know about the AI-detected security bug impacting wide swaths of the internet

From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.

A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth.

USA-BANKS-AI-AGENTS:US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator, even with a read-only customer account, gain operator privileges, the top level of control over it. For

Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured.

The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force.

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates. eMudhra said it will replace affected customers' certificates with free ones from partners, though its

Samsung has expanded its Certified Re-Newed programme to Amazon.com, offering 14 refurbished Galaxy S24 and S25 models starting at $489. The phones feature genuine Samsung parts, new batteries, 147 quality checks and a one-year limited manufacturer warranty.