Topic: Cybersecurity

  • US Bank investigates LockBit’s claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline

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  • ‘Hot Spot’ Review: Eighties Cyberpunk Kitsch Is the Future in Agnieszka Smoczynka’s Peculiar Post-Apocalyptic Vision

    Variety critic Guy Lodge reviews “Hot Spot,” a new science-fiction film from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska, whose eclectic filmography includes “The Lure,” “Fugue” and “The Silent Twins.” The film, released through Focus Features after premiering at Fantasia and Poland’s New Horizons festival, is described as a strange blend of grim post-apocalyptic vision and eighties cyberpunk…

  • Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner

    Adit Singh, an early investor in AI chip startup Cerebras, has joined venture capital firm Mayfield as an infrastructure partner. Singh made his name at Foundation Capital, where he helped source and co-lead Cerebras’s first funding round, a bet that paid off handsomely when the chipmaker went public in May 2026 at a valuation of…

  • It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

    Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, has quietly become the company’s de facto second-in-command as a wave of senior executive departures throughout 2026 has consolidated day-to-day authority in his hands. Although his official title has not changed, his responsibilities now span product strategy and the entire “scaling” arm of the business, giving him oversight of…

  • All Fortnite Lobby Hacks And Free Rewards

    Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override features all sorts of throwbacks to the ’90s gaming scene, including cheats and hacks that you can use to shake up your rounds of Battle Royale. But right now, as we dive into this new season, the most important hacks are in the BR lobby, via the new “admin…

  • All admin panel codes in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4

    Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 introduces an “admin panel” in the lobby that lets players unlock rewards by entering special “lobby hack” codes. These codes are not discoverable in-game and must be found externally, so outlets have begun compiling and publishing full lists to help players access the bonuses, which include unlockable Sprites, XP boosts…

  • Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists

    Security researchers at GuidePoint have uncovered a scam in which a criminal calling itself “Ransom Busters” contacts ransomware victims before their data leak becomes public, offering to delete stolen files and hand over decryption keys for a fraction of the original ransom. Rather than being a genuine recovery outfit, GuidePoint’s Research and Intelligence Team assesses…

  • Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch

    Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless, seven months after Elon Musk first claimed the cars were operating without onboard human safety monitors. Independent tracking data suggests all recent rides in the city are now unsupervised, a significant shift ahead of the planned launch of the Cybercab, Tesla’s purpose-built robotaxi with…

  • DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app

    A developer has released Osmosis, a free open-source app that lets owners of DJI Osmo cameras download, browse and edit footage without relying on DJI’s official Mimo app, which routes data through the company’s own cloud servers. Built by DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe by reverse-engineering the communication protocol DJI’s cameras use, the app offers an…

  • AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

    Enterprise data software company Alation has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack, days after first reporting an incident that disrupted service for some customers. Alation provides natural-language search and AI-driven data tools to more than 500 companies worldwide, including roughly half of the Fortune 1000, making the breach potentially significant given the sensitive corporate data its…