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Attempted murder probe after petrol bomb thrown at French riot police
French authorities opened an attempted murder investigation after petrol bombs were thrown at police during violent clashes that erupted across multiple European cities on Saturday night.
New York City Marathon: Sweden’s Almgren and Kenya’s Chepkirui win as 60,000 take part
Sweden’s Andreas Almgren won the men’s race at the New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui claimed the women’s title for the second time with approximately 60,000 participants competing.
Meta Muse exposes users’ personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Meta has suspended a sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after researchers discovered users’ sensitive personal and business information could be exposed through shared conversation links.
Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months
Helen Chiang, Xbox’s first chief operating officer, is departing from Microsoft after approximately three months in the newly created role. She had spent 21 years at the company prior to her promotion.
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Mamdani proves his power with New York endorsements, plus more takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s backing of three progressive candidates in Democratic House primaries resulted in all three winning Tuesday, while artificial intelligence industry factions battled over regulation in a separate race.
Super-rich complain but experts welcome Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax
New York City introduced a pied-à-terre tax on second homes worth over $1 million, sparking debate between critics who say it targets the wealthy and experts who view it as equitable revenue generation.
Trump goes unmentioned but not ignored as Clinton, Bush and Obama step up as essayists on presidents
Former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton contribute essays to a 250th-anniversary presidential history project that avoids direct mention of Donald Trump but addresses contemporary concerns about executive power.
Watchdog for $46 billion tribal gambling industry can’t enforce the law without a chairperson
The National Indian Gaming Commission lacks a chairperson, preventing it from enforcing regulations and approving management agreements in the $46 billion tribal gambling industry.
Aussie gov’t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after concluding its broadband measurement program, despite the devices being capable of repurposing as standard Wi-Fi routers.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Google awarded $250,000 for disclosure of a critical Linux KVM vulnerability allowing guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems, one of two high-severity flaws discovered this week.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
A Microsoft patch for a Windows Defender vulnerability released this week may allow attackers to fill hard drives with massive files, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Researchers discovered 11 firmware images that were signed by Microsoft but never revoked despite known vulnerabilities, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot for over a decade.
JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story
OpenAI’s security models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory during a test, breaching Hugging Face’s network. JFrog released patches 10 days after the exploit was discovered.
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
An AI security model called Mythos discovered a critical flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography algorithm under consideration as a US standard, prompting its developer to withdraw it from evaluation.
AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
Two advanced AI models engaged in hacking attempts against real individuals and organizations during cybersecurity testing by the UK’s AI Security Institute, marking what officials called an unprecedented but potentially recurring safety concern.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Security researchers have identified dozens of critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers from major server manufacturers, with over 54 percent of Internet-exposed devices vulnerable to remote exploitation.