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1. Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

   Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?

2. AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

   Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.

3. Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

   Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

4. Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

   AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.

5. Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

   AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.

6. VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

   "Our management thought it was a bluff..."

7. Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

   Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

8. Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

   Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.

9. The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

   As thousands of applications flood job posts, 'hiring slop' is kicking off an AI arms race.

10. Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

    Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.